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Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics by chadash on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:37PM (#25364488)
a) Boston Dynamics might be a cool company, but they don't seem to have a widely used product on the market (and they were founded 28 years ago).

b) Is there a specific app with just a few thousand users that sold for more than $1B?

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Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics by libra1 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:38PM (#25365534)
Clubhouse was worth ~$100m with only 1,500 users in May; might be more now: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/20/clubhouse-app-is-where-mc-ha....
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Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics by vonmoltke on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:03PM (#25366617)
Clubhouse was "worth" $100MM in the sense that A16z paid $12MM for 12% of it. That's not the same as someone paying $100MM for all of it.
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Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics by hollerith on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @08:02PM (#25368078)
It's not exactly the same, but it is very similar.
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