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And Yahoo could have bought Google for even less. I would love to hear from the people who turned these kind of deals down
by werber 7y ago
And Yahoo could have bought Google for even less. I would love to hear from the people who turned these kind of deals down
- bartread 7y agoMe too. Although the thing is it probably made sense at the time. Also, it's far from guaranteed that Yahoo would have made a success of Google, or Blockbuster of Netflix, so whilst there can be an entertaining schadenfreude to stories like this it's not something you can take too seriously.
- lifeisstillgood 7y agoThis is the crux of it - if Google had asked me to be employee number one there is a very good chance Brin and Page would have gone back to academia.
- xuki 7y agoDidn’t they have the chance to buy Facebook for 1B too but they reduced their offer at the last minute and Zuckeberg said no? I’m convinced the people at Yahoo didn’t know what they were doing and both Google and Facebook would fail spectacularly within Yahoo.
- mcny 7y agoI remember Microsoft bought a stake in Facebook at 15B valuation or something. I didn't know much about funding then (I still don't) but I thought how much money that put in was more important than the valuation. I can too invest $1 in Facebook at $100B valuation I thought. To me the point was not to earn dividends but to have Zuckerberg's ear and hopefully have a say in how Facebook is run.
- protomyth 7y agoIt would make for an interesting website: the what-if of Silicon Valley. Another famous one is that Sun could have bought Apple. It was in the intermission between Steve years.
- werber 7y agoOooooo, I think I'll throw a site up for submissions with that premise this week. Great idea!