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[Yes, 20 years later from the point in time I'm talking about.]
Steve Case: sold AOL to Time Warner for $164bn
[$3 billion isn't cool. You know what's cool? $164 billion is cool.]
Ev Williams: sold Blogger to Google for an undisclosed sum
[Obviously I was referring to Twitter.]
John Sidgmore: sold UUNet to MFS Communications for $2bn
[Brainfart -- I meant John Morgridge.]
Ross Perot: sold EDS to General Motors for $2.5bn (in 1984 dollars!)
[Yeah, but that's when $2.5 billion was real money.]
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[Yes, 20 years later from the point in time I'm talking about.]
Steve Case: sold AOL to Time Warner for $164bn
[$3 billion isn't cool. You know what's cool? $164 billion is cool.]
Ev Williams: sold Blogger to Google for an undisclosed sum
[Obviously I was referring to Twitter.]
John Sidgmore: sold UUNet to MFS Communications for $2bn
[Brainfart -- I meant John Morgridge.]
Ross Perot: sold EDS to General Motors for $2.5bn (in 1984 dollars!)
[Yeah, but that's when $2.5 billion was real money.]