Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
29 Jan 2020 Acquired WhatsApp
“” What facebook was giving up here (and we’ll talk about this in the grading) I don’t think you should think about is the cash value, I think you should think about as the percentage of their equity value, which is about 10%.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- belief
- Recorded
- 29 Jan 2020
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- Acquired
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…No, we’re going to get into that. [...]. Facebook be like, “Oh my gosh! ” What facebook was giving up here (and we’ll talk about this in the grading) I don’t think you should think about is the cash value, I think you should think about as the percentage of their equity value, which is about 10%. They’re a $200 billion something market cap company at this point. They basically sold 10% of the company in order to go and get this asset. For reference, we’ll talk about this in analysis later. But Facebook is a $630 billion market cap company today.…
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