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>Why Microsoft though, is there other company competing for the deal? The only other companies, in tech, that could offer to pay 100B: AAPL, MSFT, FB, AMZN, G
by nemothekid 6y ago
>Why Microsoft though, is there other company competing for the deal?
The only other companies, in tech, that could offer to pay 100B:
AAPL, MSFT, FB, AMZN, GOOG.
Once you exit FAAMG, the next largest company is Berkshire Hathaway with a 500B valuation. I don't see Buffet paying 1/5th of his own company for TikTok.
Among FAAMG, the other 4 just got grilled by Congress over Antitrust. FB & GOOG would likely never get approved it. I don't see AAPL owning a social network, given the privacy concerns around it. That leaves AMZN, who has Twitch as a "sister" platform. However I don't see Bezos getting away with acquiring a high profile company like TikTok, as he's currently enemy #1. That leaves MSFT who has been trying to get into social media but has kept failing (most recent of which was Mixer, which pretty much funneled millions into top streamers for nothing).