What you say eerily reminds me of the argument Ballmer made to not buy Google in 2003 (the amount being spoken of was 10 billion - not too far there either). M

What you say eerily reminds me of the argument Ballmer made to not buy Google in 2003 (the amount being spoken of was 10 billion - not too far there either). My hypothesis is this: mind-share and network-effects are hard/impossible to value.