![]() ![]() ![]() Her fan base is so passionate and she's accumulated so much power that she is leveraging it to reorganize the power dynamics of the music industry in front of our very eyes, taking it back for artists, and of course, standing up for women everywhere. She was the highest-paid celebrity in the world in 2019, more than Kanye, Lebron James, Roger Federer, or even Beyonce. She was the first woman to ever win the coveted Album of the Year Grammy twice and now she's won it a third time. I'm Ben Gilbert and I am the co-founder and Managing Director of Seattle-based Pioneer Square Labs and our venture fund, PSL Ventures.ĭavid: I’m David Rosenthal and I am an angel investor based in San Francisco.īen: We are your hosts. The season premiere of Acquired, the podcast about great technology companies and the stories and the playbooks behind them. Thank you as well to Wilson Sonsini - You can learn more about WSGR at: īen: Welcome to Season 10, Episode 1.Thanks to Silicon Valley Bank for being our banner sponsor for Acquired Season 6.We have five honorable mentions that didn’t make our Top Ten list.It is obviously subject to change going forward from both future and past acquisition performance, as well as fluctuating stock prices. This ranking represents a point in time in history, March 2, 2020.If we made an assumption not disclosed by the parent company, we linked to the source of the reported assumption. All underlying assumptions are based on public financial disclosures unless stated otherwise.We recognize this analysis is flawed (cashflow/profit multiples are better, at least for mature companies), but given the opacity of most companies’ business unit reporting, this was the only way to apply a consistent and straightforward approach to each deal. If you have any examples you think we missed ping us on Slack or email at: We used revenue multiples to estimate the current value of the acquired company, multiplying its current estimated revenue by the market cap-to-revenue multiple of the parent company’s stock. We considered all historical acquisitions - not just technology companies - but may have overlooked some in areas that we know less well.Naspers’ investment in Tencent and Softbank/Yahoo’s investment in Alibaba are disqualified for this reason. In order to count for our list, acquisitions must be at least a majority stake in the target company (otherwise it’s just an investment).
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