What does Slide... do?
As near as I can tell it makes 14 y/o girls happy. I can wrap my head around a lot of small companies going big, but I never could find a way to rationalize the hype behind slide.
Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games
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#12Biz insider says sales price @ $228m
Not a huge percentage more but I wouldn't complain about another $46m :)
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-just-bought-slide-for-...
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#13What does Slide... do?
As near as I can tell it makes 14 y/o girls happy. I can wrap my head around a lot of small companies going big, but I never could find a way to rationalize the hype behind slide.
I always thought it was another case of Founder-itis. Popular founder = press = perceived popular product (almost no matter what it does) = good exit or a pity exit.
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#14Given that Slide has received $78M in funding this exit does not look very exciting to my eyes. Nevertheless, congratulations to Max for yet another sold company.
I saw that and wondered where $78 million goes in creating a games site. That seems like a tremendous amount of money. Oh well, congrats I suppose.
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#15What does Slide... do?
I think most people who have a Myspace account use Slide to display pictures.
Re: Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games
#16Given that Slide has received $78M in funding this exit does not look very exciting to my eyes. Nevertheless, congratulations to Max for yet another sold company.
I saw that and wondered where $78 million goes in creating a games site. That seems like a tremendous amount of money. Oh well, congrats I suppose.
Sales force + marketing, maybe.
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#17What does Slide... do?
had no ideas they were a game company.. thought they just did picture slide shows
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#19Max is awesome and I love his attitude. But I just never ever understood Slide. And why Google would buy Slide is equally difficult to understand, if not more. Are they buying technology? Or users (on Facebook!)? Or revenues (most likely not!)? Or Max and his team?
Re: Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games
#20Given that Slide has received $78M in funding this exit does not look very exciting to my eyes. Nevertheless, congratulations to Max for yet another sold company.
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