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Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics by SilasX on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:38PM (#25364518)
I was going to cite concrete numbers for BD’s previous acquisitions — since I was certain I’d heard those figures being higher — but Wikipedia just gives the Google and SoftBank purchases as being undisclosed sums:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Dynamics#Company_histor...

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Re:Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics by agency on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:03PM (#25364931)
This Bloomberg article[1] claims the 2017 sale to Softbank was just $165 million. Compare that to SaaS valuations. Software is wild.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-17/boston-dy...

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