Pulse Joins the LinkedIn Family

dm8 wrote: post #5

Apparently, LinkedIn paid them 90M - http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/linkedin-acquires-pulse-for... Wow. There are so many RSS readers but congrats to Pulse team on executing well. How it fits into LinkedIn's product roadmap?

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Re: Pulse Joins the LinkedIn Family

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Post by SurfScore » Thu, Apr 11, 2013, 9:51 PM UTC

I love Pulse. They built a great app and I'm really happy for them, so this isn't a critique, but were they really worth 90M? I get that most of it was in stock, but damn.

I guess it was more of a team/userbase acquisition, similar to the Dropbox/Mailbox deal. Either way, congrats guys!

Re: Pulse Joins the LinkedIn Family

#10

Post by akavi » Thu, Apr 11, 2013, 9:55 PM UTC

SurfScore wrote: post #9

I love Pulse. They built a great app and I'm really happy for them, so this isn't a critique, but were they really worth 90M? I get that most of it was in stock, but damn. I guess it was more of a team/userbase acquisition, similar to the Dropbox/Mailbox deal. Either way, congrats guys!

Isn't stock == cash when the acquiring company is public?