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I don’t think it’s at a discount at all. They’re effectively selling it at the height of the market. Even if they cut valuation in half, it’d still be at a significant premium.


It’d be the height of the market if they weren’t forced to sell too, they’d just also be in a much stronger bargaining position.


I feel like sentiment was similar for when FB bought IG for $1B. Today, we would all agree that was vastly under priced.


Well, sure. But similarly, most people today would agree that Tumblr was not worth nearly 1.1 billion when Yahoo bought it.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.


Disagree. I think it is a discount. From my understanding the business was not for sale until this executive order.


Tiktok needs to be hooked up to PRISM and all the other NSA programs immediately. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft or whoever buys it is compensated with a piece of US intelligence's bottomless pit of money.


This is what a monopsony is, is it good to enable that through government involvement?




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