SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
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SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
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Re: SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
#2Wow. 3MM raised, 119MM exit. 40x return, and they made that 3MM last 4 years from 2008-2012 with revenue. Congratulations!
Re: SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
#3Wow. 3MM raised, 119MM exit. 40x return, and they made that 3MM last 4 years from 2008-2012 with revenue. Congratulations!
40x refers to the return to the investors. If investors own e.g. 30% (I am making this number up and have no knowledge of the situation), their return is ~12x.
Re: SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
#4Wow. 3MM raised, 119MM exit. 40x return, and they made that 3MM last 4 years from 2008-2012 with revenue. Congratulations!
It's probably more like a 10x to 15x return, unless investors owned 100% of the company :)
Re: SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
#5Wow. 3MM raised, 119MM exit. 40x return, and they made that 3MM last 4 years from 2008-2012 with revenue. Congratulations!
The good news is that since the employees owned some we can be sure that they saw some of that 119M$. That being said their site died :-)
[1] Random note: It seems to me that that KK would be the appropriate unit for millions (thousand-thousands) and MM would be Million Millions or (10^12, or trillions.
Re: SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
#6Does LinkedIn own a Webex yet? If they're going from a recruiting site to a full business-communications type model (archiving, in this case) they're going to need it.
Re: SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
#7Wow. 3MM raised, 119MM exit. 40x return, and they made that 3MM last 4 years from 2008-2012 with revenue. Congratulations!
The good news is that since the employees owned some we can be sure that they saw some of that 119M$. That being said their site died :-) [1] Random note: It seems to me that that KK would be the appropriate unit for millions (thousand-thousands) and MM would be Million Millions or (10^12, or trillions.
Mille, i.e. Latin for a thousand. Thus MM = 1000 x 1000 = 1,000,000.
I rarely see MM used to denote a million outside the financial world. I have never seen a job, for example listing remuneration as "circa 120M" meaning 120,000
Re: SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
#8Congrats to team SlideShare. Good product!
Wondering whats the goal of LinkedIn for this acquisition? It is not a people acquisition. And SlideShare is already integrated with LinkedIn's platform. So I'm curious!
Re: SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
#9I don't know what the cash/stock split was, but it's worth mentioning the LinkedIn's IPO raised $352M* so buying SlideShare was just under 34% of all the money they raised.
* http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-18/linkedin-raises-352...
Re: SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn
#10I don't know what the cash/stock split was, but it's worth mentioning the LinkedIn's IPO raised $352M* so buying SlideShare was just under 34% of all the money they raised. * http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-18/linkedin-raises-352...
45% cash, 55% stock according to LinkedIn press release: http://press.linkedin.com/node/1191