Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user
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Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user
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#2Didn't realize Aardvark only had 90,000 users. Huge win for the Aardvark team with that sale.
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#3Uh, is it just me or is this chart having a hard time with comma versus period for "thousands separator"? Broadcast.com is listed as having $10,961 cost per user, but comes up as $10.961 on the chart. [Sale price of 5.7B for 520K active users]
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#4Uh, is it just me or is this chart having a hard time with comma versus period for "thousands separator"? Broadcast.com is listed as having $10,961 cost per user, but comes up as $10.961 on the chart. [Sale price of 5.7B for 520K active users]
It's not just you. I was about to post this.
On a related note, 11K per user is insane. What did Yahoo see in Broadcast.com?
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#5Another interesting metric would be cost per user minute (would probably need to be normalized over a time period like day, week, month, or year, or quarter).
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#6Uh, is it just me or is this chart having a hard time with comma versus period for "thousands separator"? Broadcast.com is listed as having $10,961 cost per user, but comes up as $10.961 on the chart. [Sale price of 5.7B for 520K active users]
It's not just you. I was about to post this. On a related note, 11K per user is insane. What did Yahoo see in Broadcast.com?
I would guess for technology they developed not their user base.
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#7Interesting analysis, but that flickering tooltip issue is beyond annoying. A quick UI fix would be a big improvement.
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#8PayPal was a steal.
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#9We can add Viber for compression too: $3 per user
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#10Wow. This graph is certainly illuminating: https://public.brightside.io/v1/chart/321ef2c603e8d67080afcd...
450000000 is a lot of users. Metcalfe's law says that the value of a communication network is proportional to the square of the connected users. Then add to this the amazing growth they are seeing. I don't think people quite realize what this means.
EDIT: In general, it baffles me how many armchair opinionators there are. Isn't it more interesting to try to understand why FB paid $16B, rather than saying why they shouldn't have?