No wechat or weixin on this chart ?
Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user
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#72Ironically, I only make Google money through YouTube when I'm not a registered user, because when I am I have AdBlock on and it's only when I'm in an incognito mode or different browser/profile that the ads get shown.
So yeah, users not necessarily the most relevant metric there. Which, upon reflection, makes YouTube even more of a steal than it looks in the chart.
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#73I do not like charts like this because their existence implies that cost per user somehow matters, or is a deciding factor even, in the price of an acquisition. Even if that was the major metric in determining a price, there's often a very large difference between the number of users currently and the expected number 1 year or 5 years out. You don't buy a company because of the number of users it has right now. You b…
One way this chart could be useful to an entrepreneur is to estimate a ballpark their startup in a certain market would fetch if they sold it. The number of active users or leads is monetizable in a sale, and can be one of the assets.
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#74Revenue Multiple would make a more useful chart to me. Broadcast.com had $60M in revenue when they sold. Knowing they sold at ~98x revenue seems more useful to me when pricing a stock.
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#75I really want to see Txn Size / Employee.
Equity never gets meted out equally across employees. However as a worker bee I am the 'dog that eat the scraps from the table'. When the $/employee is high, even non-founder, non-dev#1 employees make out well.
IMHO, the last such exit was YouTube, before WhatsApp ofcourse.
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#76Broadcast.com's bar is incorrectly scaled down 1000x -- overlay shows cost per user is over $10k, but it lists at $10.
indeed. it was the first thing i looked for... and when i saw $10 i was shocked that broadcast.com had any use let alone billions...
Re: Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user
#77Broadcast.com's bar is incorrectly scaled down 1000x -- overlay shows cost per user is over $10k, but it lists at $10.
indeed. it was the first thing i looked for... and when i saw $10 i was shocked that broadcast.com had any use let alone billions...
* user, not use. but that works too...
and does it include the youtube legal deals and fines? probably not
Re: Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user
#78Broadcast.com's bar is incorrectly scaled down 1000x -- overlay shows cost per user is over $10k, but it lists at $10.
Yep, that was the first thing I checked as well, actually broadcast.com is by far the most expensive acquisition.
There's probably a bug in the visualization library getting the thousands coma as a decimal separator, too bad :)
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#79A FeedBurner "User" is not equal, this was a publisher service.
The real target were the feed subscribers, or maybe they are where can I check the data?
The same goes for Youtube, how many visitors did they have? They bring in the ad revenue.
Compared to Facebook/Whatsapp where you can usually only participate by being a user.
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#80There's this thing called sorting which makes stuff a lot easier to read and more informative.....
Yup, I came here to say this.