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DodgyEggplant
on Oct 18, 2011
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How many people would sit in front of Steve Jobs, refuse to a hundreds of millions acquisition offer, just before Apple enters their market. You got to admire Houston. He might reach the moon.
0x12
on Oct 18, 2011
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The dividing line between stupid and brilliant is usually determined retrospectively.
wh-uws
on Oct 18, 2011
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Exactly look at the Groupon/Google situation
(which is still to be determined in my opinion)
reddit_clone
on Oct 21, 2011
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Also reminds me of Yahoo refusing to buy Google. I am sure they had good reasons for that decision then.
ubasu
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Note: 9-digit is less than one billion. Nothing to sneeze at, though. ;-)
DodgyEggplant
on Oct 18, 2011
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Correct. Fixed that. A Billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
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