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This. I have no doubt one of the aforementioned suitors, or some other, will conveniently step forward and strike a deal with Twitter in the $20-30 per share ra
by siculars 10y ago
This. I have no doubt one of the aforementioned suitors, or some other, will conveniently step forward and strike a deal with Twitter in the $20-30 per share range.
- mholmes680 10y agoI think you're right, but $20 - $30 is waaay too big an estimate here. I think its more like $20-24. ...maybe a foreign company at this point...
- jowiar 10y agoHow do you justify that price, though? It involves a whole lot of growth that isn't really there. Google and FB are probably the only companies that could turn Twitter profitable, but probably only at a point that justifies a sale price of around $15.
- harryh 10y agoA lot of people think that twitter could relatively easily be made profitable by significantly cutting engineering staff. http://brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/some-comment-on-twitter-buyout-rumours.html http://brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/some-comment-on-...
- duaneb 10y agoYea, people miss the fail whale.
- the_watcher 10y agoPretty sure that Google or Facebook could handle the scale Twitter operates at without the same headcount.
- duaneb 10y agoIf I had google behind me, I could also leverage ridiculous technology. Both are larger than I am (and twitter is), so this is not surprising.
- harryh 10y agoThe vast majority of current twitter engineers have nothing to do with keeping fail whales at bay.
- duaneb 10y agoIsn't that the whole point of hiring engineers? To keep your service running? It's not going to maintain itself.
- harryh 10y agoIsn't that the whole point of hiring engineers? No. If all twitter cared about was keeping the existing service running they could do it with 1/10th the current technical staff.
- harryh 10y agoI will bet you $500 that this doesn't happen within the next 90 days.