dm on Nostr: npub1a4cfq…qt2kf I guess you might consider acquisitions of mature-but-declining ...
npub1a4cfqcj5cq9qauuzz33rqq63kudnu6k7x4fe4xep93s7lu5hgk3szqt2kf (npub1a4c…t2kf) I guess you might consider acquisitions of mature-but-declining small tech brands (Digg, Instapaper) by Betaworks to be sort of that. The flipped Instapaper (resold to Pinterest 3 years after acquisition) and flipped the Digg brand (resold to BuySellAds 6 years after acquisition).
The amounts of money we're talking about are quite small, though. For larger, public tech companies, it might be that tech equity often trades as such a high price to earnings as to make such buyouts generally too expensive to be worth it (as shown with Twitter, I think--a company that successfully convinced investors to pay for something like a billion dollars in losses over its publicly traded lifetime, and which Musk probably has made operationally significantly cheaper, but which is still probably going to lose Musk a ton of money).
The amounts of money we're talking about are quite small, though. For larger, public tech companies, it might be that tech equity often trades as such a high price to earnings as to make such buyouts generally too expensive to be worth it (as shown with Twitter, I think--a company that successfully convinced investors to pay for something like a billion dollars in losses over its publicly traded lifetime, and which Musk probably has made operationally significantly cheaper, but which is still probably going to lose Musk a ton of money).