To lose ALL of 26B would be rich ;-) I mostly think an intermediate-scale disaster, like losing a third of that, that is all of the premium over market cap in that deal... That would be quite enough, and much more realistic...
But unless it is a publicly visible multibillion-dollar write-off, nobody would care...
Stagnation would not be welcome for Microsoft as a whole, but specifically at the LinkedIn level would not be too much of a problem for Nadella...
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Facebook is different; MS wants business social graph, that is linkedin, they don't care about causal social... Their business model favors that quite specifically...
Facebook can also become a competitor at any moment, even if the relations are currently good...
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Re: Executives motivation for merging
Date: 2016-06-23 08:53 pm (UTC)But unless it is a publicly visible multibillion-dollar write-off, nobody would care...
Stagnation would not be welcome for Microsoft as a whole, but specifically at the LinkedIn level would not be too much of a problem for Nadella...
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Facebook is different; MS wants business social graph, that is linkedin, they don't care about causal social... Their business model favors that quite specifically...
Facebook can also become a competitor at any moment, even if the relations are currently good...