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Or, rephrased, "They become really expensive for me to acquire and add to my crappy pile of product spaghetti in a monopolistic fashion! It would be much better
by sib 7y ago
Or, rephrased, "They become really expensive for me to acquire and add to my crappy pile of product spaghetti in a monopolistic fashion! It would be much better if they went public when the were still cheap."
- dwoozle 7y agoHuh? It is much cheaper to buy a company before it IPOs. That’s why you see things like Cisco acquiring AppDynamics five days before its scheduled IPO.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- sib 7y agoIt's much easier to buy a public company than a private one (in a "hostile" or undesired situation), so if a company becomes public at a lower valuation, it's cheaper for Salesforce to acquire them and eliminate the competition.