[HN Gopher] Microsoft execs on acquiring TikTok (2020)
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       Microsoft execs on acquiring TikTok (2020)
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-09-19 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | WhereIsTheTruth wrote:
       | Both Microsoft and the US administration (Trump at that time)
       | were pretty open about it, Twitter was a little bit shy
       | 
       | Wich is funny because that's precisely when the FUD started to
       | appear
       | 
       | https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-tiktok-have-held-prelim...
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       | https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357231/microsoft-tiktok-...
        
       | Reubend wrote:
       | The sale price discussed in this email is $10-30 billion. That
       | seems like a very good price to me considering ByteDance's yearly
       | revenue of $80 billion. Of course most of that revenue isn't from
       | the USA, and we can only guess as to what the profit is from that
       | revenue.
       | 
       | But if we do some extremely rough estimates, assuming that 25% of
       | revenue comes from the USA and that they make a 30% margin, then
       | it would take them 3 - 5 years to recoup the investment assuming
       | 0 growth. Plus, I'm sure they could save on hosting costs by
       | leveraging Azure, and tie the ads in with Bing ads. Obviously
       | these numbers are rough and might be way off.
       | 
       | That seems like a really great value for them. If I were in their
       | shoes, I'd probably offer even more.
        
       | LispSporks22 wrote:
       | Where's the company lists they're talking about? The ones they'd
       | consider buying.
        
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