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$14.3 Billion seems excessive for it to be a pure aquihire play. There's undoubtedly some IP acquisition (or at least exclusive access to certain IP) involved.
by Peroni 1y ago
$14.3 Billion seems excessive for it to be a pure aquihire play. There's undoubtedly some IP acquisition (or at least exclusive access to certain IP) involved.
- tgv 1y agoI know "excessive" is technically correct, but at the same time it seems an understatement.
- owebmaster 1y agoTheir fantasy money from ScaleAI’s inflated valuation will easily balance this out on the books.
- nikcub 1y agoIt's about 0.85% of Meta's market cap - less than the 1% they paid for (granted, all of) Instagram. They also paid about 1% of market cap for Oculus ($2b into a ~$220b market cap) Seems about par for Facebook when it comes to company-shifting acquisitions.