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Bill Gurley
Gurley states most acquisitions are $20-70 million, but venture backing raises expectations to $150 million or more.
“The number one type of acquisition that the big companies like to do is twenty to seventy million dollars and the minute you take venture, they help you raise the B and all of a sudden everyone's expectation is it's got to be 150 or more or we're not saying yes.”
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Bill Gurley
Gurley cites DP Review selling to Amazon for $40-70 million as a single-founder bootstrapped success.
“One guy, one founder and Amazon reported, no one knows the exact number, but I've heard anywhere from 40 to $70,000,000 for a single guy.”
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Dylan Patel
Patel reveals that China purchased two top German robotics companies and transferred their servo and actuator production to China.
“Two of Germany's best robotics companies were actually purchased by China, And a lot of their, servos and actuator construction was actually transferred to China.”
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Dylan Patel
Patel explains NVIDIA acquired Grok to get engineering resources for multiple chip architectures.
“acquiring Rock is like how you get those resources to make more solutions for different parts of the market. And as far as like, are they threatened?”
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