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On the YouTube front, I'd argue that things are not really a "steal" unless we they were purchased for well below market value at the time. I don't know that w
by dshah 16y ago
On the YouTube front, I'd argue that things are not really a "steal" unless we they were purchased for well below market value at the time. I don't know that we have much evidence that Google underpaid by a lot given circumstances at YouTube (they were burning through cash pretty fast).
- zaidf 16y agoFair point. There may have been very few, if any, parties willing to pay what Goog paid for YT. From that angle, it hardly looks like a steal. But if you think about YT's growth and strategic fit since the acquisition, it looks like a steal for 1.6B. Meaning, had a competitor known that YT could be such a key to google, there would be many more takers for it.