acquisitions: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/acquisitions/ Everyone on the record about acquisitions: 4 verbatim quotes from 2 people, December 2012 to February 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:32:45 +0000 Dylan Patel: Patel explains NVIDIA acquired Grok to get engineering resources for multiple chip architectures. https://minutesof.com/q/33dcc169-dbc3-427a-b62e-65aa1ee2164f/ https://minutesof.com/q/33dcc169-dbc3-427a-b62e-65aa1ee2164f/ “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?” — Dylan Patel, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:30:16 +0000 acquisitions Dylan Patel: Patel reveals that China purchased two top German robotics companies and transferred their servo https://minutesof.com/q/9ecd3a10-280c-4dea-a552-8bc663d46ac8/ https://minutesof.com/q/9ecd3a10-280c-4dea-a552-8bc663d46ac8/ “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.” — Dylan Patel, Going Direct Sun, 22 Jun 2025 21:30:00 +0000 acquisitions Bill Gurley: Gurley cites DP Review selling to Amazon for $40-70 million as a single-founder bootstrapped succ https://minutesof.com/q/9b63b3bf-47be-4a2e-9553-8ad7e88bd799/ https://minutesof.com/q/9b63b3bf-47be-4a2e-9553-8ad7e88bd799/ “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.” — Bill Gurley, GigaOm Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:49:11 +0000 acquisitions Bill Gurley: Gurley states most acquisitions are $20-70 million, but venture backing raises expectations to $1 https://minutesof.com/q/fb42d77b-29e0-40e4-859c-c7fc2b76b6c4/ https://minutesof.com/q/fb42d77b-29e0-40e4-859c-c7fc2b76b6c4/ “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.” — Bill Gurley, GigaOm Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:49:11 +0000 acquisitions