My take on Microsoft buying Linked in
2016-06-14
$26.2 billion sounds a lot but it is a lot better buy than $8.5 billion they spent on NOKIA provided Microsoft can so something with 433 million Linked in users. When you think about it, Microsoft spend $60.51 per user. Linked in has revenue of $2.99 billion last year ... so that means, each user produced about $6.91 per year for Linked in. So that means Microsoft paid about 8.76 fold of the Linked in revenue. It's still not as bad as when we had .com boom.