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Webshots Cofounders Buy Back Site For $80 Million Discount
from the not-bad dept
So, here was the trick to making money in the dot com era and ending up running a cool company you like: (1) start a company doing something cool that you liked (2) sell that company for gobs (and gobs) of money to some idiot company with too much stock wealth (3) wait for that big company to fail and (4) buy back your old company for pennies on the dollar - keeping most of the money you made, plus getting the company back. Such a deal seems to have worked wonders for Webshots. In 1999 they sold the company to Excite for $84 million. Today they paid $2.4 million (in cash) to buy it back.
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Oh that story was beautiful
Way to go!
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Re: Oh that story was beautiful
it is the true story of the people who have full faith in their capabilities.
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