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Re:Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation by jjeaff on Friday December 21, 2018 @07:41PM (#18738066)
Why would all those other firms make poor investments just to prop up a deal for tencent?
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Re:Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation by elefanten on Friday December 21, 2018 @09:12PM (#18738464)
Yeah this is written by someone with no knowledge of the industry.

Tencent has been making strategic investments in top western gaming businesses for years. This is completely consistent with their investments in, for example, Riot and Epic. None of those have been dumped.

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Re:Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation by baybal2 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:46AM (#18740023)
But they got ton of cash out of China, right?
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Re:Discord raises $150M, surpassing $2B valuation by baybal2 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:44AM (#18740019)
They may sense that Tencent is there for pump and dump, or they may be simply in share.
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