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I was curious myself why they didn't let the company IPO then buy it out. It seems that could have happened for far far less than 8 billion. I guess the facebo

by gte910h 16y ago

I was curious myself why they didn't let the company IPO then buy it out. It seems that could have happened for far far less than 8 billion. I guess the facebook preIPO buyout issue was there.

wglb 16y ago
But isn't it possible that the IPO could go very well, then MS would have a bigger price to pay?
- gte910h 16y ago
  Of course that's possible. They were looking like making 1-2 billion on the IPO though from estimates, and that means the total market cap would have likely been under 5 billion still.