Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
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Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
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Re: Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
#2I wonder if this is because of the SoftBank cash crunch. Or if it's just nobody has figured out how to make money with Boston Dynamics. Though if the 1 billion sale price is true, maybe flipping BD is the only way to make money with it.
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#3Hyundai Cars + Boston Dynamics Robots = Transformers?
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#4I wonder how this will factor into the military contracts that Boston Dynamics has/will have.
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#5This just demonstrates the "price gap" between virtual and "real world" companies. An app with a few thousand uses with worth more than one of the world's best engineering companies.
Even if either has a path to profitability.
Re: Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
#6I wonder if this is because of the SoftBank cash crunch. Or if it's just nobody has figured out how to make money with Boston Dynamics. Though if the 1 billion sale price is true, maybe flipping BD is the only way to make money with it.
From the article:
> In early November, Bloomberg first reported that Hyundai was in talks to acquire Boston Dynamics from Tokyo-based SoftBank Group. The Japanese conglomerate is selling off non-core business assets after it was hit hard by a series of soured bets, including WeWork and Uber. In September 2020, Softbank sold Arm to NVIDIA for $40 billion.
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#7Didn't Google buy and then sell them already?
Re: Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
#8I wonder if this is because of the SoftBank cash crunch. Or if it's just nobody has figured out how to make money with Boston Dynamics. Though if the 1 billion sale price is true, maybe flipping BD is the only way to make money with it.
From the article: > In early November, Bloomberg first reported that Hyundai was in talks to acquire Boston Dynamics from Tokyo-based SoftBank Group. The Japanese conglomerate is selling off non-core business assets after it was hit hard by a series of soured bets, including WeWork and Uber. In September 2020, Softbank sold Arm to NVIDIA for $40 billion.
I wonder how much this has changed with the continued increase in stock values and new companies going public. Uber, Doordash, etc. aren't the losers that they appeared to be even just a couple months ago.
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#9Didn't Google buy and then sell them already?
yes, to softbank.
Re: Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics
#10Didn't Google buy and then sell them already?
In order for Google to have sold it, there would have to be a buyer who then becomes the new owner. The new owner then owns the company and can, among other things, sell the company.