Re:Lenovo Agrees to Buy IBM Server Business for $2.3 Billion
by dave_sullivan on Friday January 24, 2014 @01:18AM
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I thought Marc Andreessen's take was pretty plausible:
"""The bull case on Snapchat is that there's a company in China called Tencent that's worth $100 billion.
And Tencent is worth $100 billion because it takes its messaging services on a smartphone and then wraps them in a wide range of services—things like gaming and social networking and emojis, and video chat—and then charges for all these add-on services.
And it has been one of the most successful technology companies of all time and is worth literally $100 billion on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Maybe that's [CEO Evan Spiegel's ] plan. Maybe Evan's plan is to transplant the Tencent business model into the U.S., which nobody has actually been able to do yet."""
IBM is already IBM, and they're in a market with diminishing margins. Snapchat... Who knows?
"""The bull case on Snapchat is that there's a company in China called Tencent that's worth $100 billion.
And Tencent is worth $100 billion because it takes its messaging services on a smartphone and then wraps them in a wide range of services—things like gaming and social networking and emojis, and video chat—and then charges for all these add-on services.
And it has been one of the most successful technology companies of all time and is worth literally $100 billion on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Maybe that's [CEO Evan Spiegel's ] plan. Maybe Evan's plan is to transplant the Tencent business model into the U.S., which nobody has actually been able to do yet."""
IBM is already IBM, and they're in a market with diminishing margins. Snapchat... Who knows?