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Is this the best money Microsoft did NOT spend?
by AdrianB1 6y ago
Is this the best money Microsoft did NOT spend?
- skinnymuch 6y agoNo. The Alibaba and Yahoo Japan stakes would have paid for the entire purchase while still having benefits and then some. Yahoo sold $8B of Alibaba in 2012 and $40B of the remaining in 2019. They sold Yahoo Japan shares for $4B. Microsoft would have had no need to sell the 2012 stake at the time. They could have possibly doubled their money.
- ec109685 6y agoYahoo didn’t need to sell 8B of Alibaba. They renegotiated with Alibaba some to avoid them splintering off assets to avoid Yahoo owning 30% of them.
- skinnymuch 6y agoI’m aware. But not fully of all contexts. Why did SoftBank sell far less? Why would a behemoth well run company like Microsoft fare the same as Yahoo vs Alibaba? In parallel, why has Naspers never faced this issue?