Re:Mutiny at HQ Trivia Fails to Oust CEO
by asdfasgasdgasdg on Monday April 15, 2019 @12:40AM
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Minor nitpick, but Rovio seems to be doing ok. https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/ROVIO:FH. Their price went down pretty hard after the IPO, but lately they've been trending up. They currently have a market cap of $500M. Would they ever have gotten that far without VC? Their only big raise was $42M, if Wikipedia is to be believed.
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Re:Mutiny at HQ Trivia Fails to Oust CEO
by doctorpangloss on Monday April 15, 2019 @12:43AM
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The Angry Birds movie made what, like $350 million? It's a phenomenal franchise.
Making money off the stock isn't like, the only way to make money. HQ would kill to be anything close to as significant as Rovio.
Re:Mutiny at HQ Trivia Fails to Oust CEO
by asdfasgasdgasdg on Monday April 15, 2019 @01:09AM
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I think I get what you're saying, but that was released five years post-VC. So I don't fully understand how VC could be considered to have ruined Rovio if, five years after accepting it, they're dropping movies that return 3x their cost to produce.