We promise we’ll listen and we’ll try to make it better. But first I wanted to remind you if you have not yet and you like the show, we’d really appreciate a review on iTunes.ĭavid: Yeah, and as always, hit us up on Twitter or or We love feedback.īen: We do. An older acquisition, one that kind of set the tone for a lot of modern technology acquisitions, changed the value forever, birth of PayPal Mafia, lots of great stuff to come. Today, we are talking about eBay acquiring PayPal. I’m Ben Gilbert.īen: And this is our show. Welcome to Episode 11 of Acquired, the show where we talk about technology acquisitions that actually went well. Thank you as well to Wilson Sonsini - You can learn more about WSGR at: īen: Yeah, in fact those Drake lyrics, “I got enemies, got a lot of enemies, got a lot of people trying to keep me from…” Yeah, I don’t know the rest but it’s great.Thanks to Silicon Valley Bank for being our banner sponsor for Acquired Season 6.We have five honorable mentions that didn’t make our Top Ten list.It is obviously subject to change going forward from both future and past acquisition performance, as well as fluctuating stock prices. This ranking represents a point in time in history, March 2, 2020.If we made an assumption not disclosed by the parent company, we linked to the source of the reported assumption. All underlying assumptions are based on public financial disclosures unless stated otherwise.We recognize this analysis is flawed (cashflow/profit multiples are better, at least for mature companies), but given the opacity of most companies’ business unit reporting, this was the only way to apply a consistent and straightforward approach to each deal. If you have any examples you think we missed ping us on Slack or email at: We used revenue multiples to estimate the current value of the acquired company, multiplying its current estimated revenue by the market cap-to-revenue multiple of the parent company’s stock. We considered all historical acquisitions - not just technology companies - but may have overlooked some in areas that we know less well. Naspers’ investment in Tencent and Softbank/Yahoo’s investment in Alibaba are disqualified for this reason.
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