sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60 billionwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square106linkfedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down18
arrow-up1265arrow-down1external-linkSpaceX is buying Cursor for $60 billionwww.businessinsider.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前message-square106linkfedilink
minus-squareXLE@piefed.socialBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up66·3 个月前$60 billion. Minecraft was acquired for 2.5 billion in 2014.
minus-squareMartineski@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·3 个月前Okay, that put things into scale for me.
minus-squarefreely1333@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 个月前Almost like someone is lying about the inflation numbers for the past decade
minus-squaregnawmon@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 个月前atleast minecraft actually worth that much, probably
minus-squareDr. Moose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 个月前It’s actually worth wayyy more. Microsoft already broke even just 2 years later (2016). It’s estimated they made 8.5B total since acquisition. Cursor will likely never make 8.5 billion let alone 60.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 个月前But Microsoft didn’t plan on that. They only bought Mojang because they needed to launder offshore money from Europe. In case you guys haven’t figured it out, Musk is just a tool of Wall Street, whether these companies make money or not is completely irrelevant.
minus-squarek0e3@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 个月前I kinda remember reading how the purchase of Macromedia by Adobe was like the biggest acquisition ever at 6 billion or so back in the late 2000s.
$60 billion.
Minecraft was acquired for 2.5 billion in 2014.
Okay, that put things into scale for me.
Almost like someone is lying about the inflation numbers for the past decade
atleast minecraft actually worth that much, probably
It’s actually worth wayyy more. Microsoft already broke even just 2 years later (2016). It’s estimated they made 8.5B total since acquisition.
Cursor will likely never make 8.5 billion let alone 60.
But Microsoft didn’t plan on that. They only bought Mojang because they needed to launder offshore money from Europe.
In case you guys haven’t figured it out, Musk is just a tool of Wall Street, whether these companies make money or not is completely irrelevant.
I kinda remember reading how the purchase of Macromedia by Adobe was like the biggest acquisition ever at 6 billion or so back in the late 2000s.