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Maybe. Or this was their last chance to get a boatload of pre-IPO priced shares, fully vested... Maybe this acquisition is another sign of a looming IPO filing.
by far33d 19y ago
Maybe. Or this was their last chance to get a boatload of pre-IPO priced shares, fully vested... Maybe this acquisition is another sign of a looming IPO filing.
- rms 19y agoI think Parakey could have become a billion dollar company on its own. Instead, they're getting what will become 50M+ of the hottest closed stock around. Not a bad trade-off, and it will still be enough money to mostly free them from ever having to worry about scarcity again.
- nickb 19y agoBy all analyst accounts, Facebook is not the next Google. They have no "real" revenue other than fixed revenue that MS has to give them each year.
- myoung8 19y agoGoogle didn't have any "real" revenue for the first couple of years either... Facebook's only been around for about 3 years. Give it time.