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Ask HN: Did I miss a thread about this $900M acquisition?
Media.net acquired for $900M in mega ad-tech deal. Announced about 3 days ago.
Official announcement:
http://www.media.net/en/press
Coverage at various other sources:
https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/22/media-net-acquired-for-900m-in-mega-ad-tech-deal/
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-22/yahoo-ad-partner-media-net-sells-to-china-group-for-900-million
In my recollection, this is probably the largest exit in the Internet space where the company was not VC backed so I find this particularly interesting. What do you all think about this?
- dalke 10y agoThere were 5 HN postings about it in the last few days https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Media.net&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Media.net&sort=byDate&prefix&p... . The only one with comments (20) is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12342889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12342889 . It was flagged, fwiw. There wasn't the sort of discussion you are looking for.
- webtechgal 10y agoThanks for the heads up. Looking at the deal size (and the nature of the company), I'd have expected there to be at least some good interest/discussion on this at the HN community but apparently, not.
- MalcolmDiggs 10y agoAd-tech is such an odd-space. Every glimpse I get of it is fascinating: huge scale at minuscule latency, hard engineering problems, super-high valuations and exits: and yet, if you told me the top 10 names in ad-tech, I probably wouldn't recognize any of them. And I think most people are the same way. It's just a weird black-box sector of tech that almost nobody talks about. Not sure why though...
- webtechgal 10y ago> It's just a weird black-box sector of tech that almost nobody talks about. Not sure why though... My thoughts exactly ...
- habibalamin 10y agoProbably we don't talk about it because it's a part of our industry that we're not exactly proud of.
- wwalser 10y agoThis hit the front page of Medium on the day. I was surprised that I didn't see anything about the acquisition on HN as well. https://backchannel.com/two-decades-ago-he-borrowed-500-from-his-dad-ef20be70f8f9#.atavfdz64 https://backchannel.com/two-decades-ago-he-borrowed-500-from...
- seattle_spring 10y agoHN doesn't care much about acquisitions, unless it's one of the hot-name startups. The company I worked for was bought for $1.1B a few years back. I don't think the thread on it got a single upvote.
- sushid 10y agoWhat was the company if you don't mind me asking?