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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by vivekl on Monday June 25, 2012 @07:30PM (#4159303)
With apparently 5 mn users, Microsoft just paid ~$200 per user... C.R.A.Z.Y. This just beat Instagram to a pulp as the yard stick for ridiculous valuation. When do I see an Oatmeal comic on this?
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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by mikeryan on Monday June 25, 2012 @08:11PM (#4159428)
Yammer charges $5-$15 per user per month. if everyone of the corporate users were charged $5 per month its $60 a user per year. How does that compare at all to a company which had no revenue?
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Re:Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer by mark_story on Monday June 25, 2012 @09:03PM (#4159604)
The biggest difference is Yammer has a reasonably stable revenue source in its customers. Instagram has 0 paying customers that I'm aware of.
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