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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by bradleyjg on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:23PM (#7267380)
The biggest shareholder hero of dotcom 1.0 was Steve Case buying a real company (Time Warner) with bubble shares. But is whatsapp Time Warner? $1/user/year even with a huge user base is still not that much revenue.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by fleitz on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @08:02PM (#7268012)
My dotbomb stock hero was always Cuban.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by tanzam75 on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @08:36PM (#7268185)
Yeah, Mark Cuban actually managed to turn his bubble shares of YHOO into cold, hard cash.

How much cash did Steve Case manage to withdraw from the stock market piggy bank?

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by cylinder on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @10:36PM (#7268678)
With the options he had made so he could retain value even when YHOO crashed. Whatsapp founders will probably do something similar w/ FB.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by tanzam75 on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @08:31PM (#7268163)
And AOL Time Warner just about ruined the chances of that sort of thing happening again.

If any Board of Directors tried to pull off that kind of stock-based deal today, they're going to have a proxy fight on their hands. These days, the shareholders of the target company are going to want cash.

But during Bubble 1.0, plenty of bubble companies acquired other bubble companies.

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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by colinbartlett on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:55PM (#7267590)
It might not be a lot of revenue, but I'd hazard a guess that it's pretty inexpensive to run. Hundreds of times cheaper per user than something like Facebook.
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Re:Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus ... by ljf on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:55PM (#7267584)
Just under half a billion a year is a decent amount coming in, I'd say!
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