This week we had the extraordinary opportunity to meet and talk with Sir Michael Moritz, Chairman of Sequoia Capital, who was at Bocconi to talk at the Lectio Inauguralis Rodolfo De Benedetti Chair in Entrepreneurship. Sir Moritz gave us a speech for about an hour, here we summarize the contents Read more…
Facebook Market Cap (as of 21/02/2014): USD174.89bn Facebook, Inc. the listed US based company headquartered in Menlo Park, California, has signed a definitive agreement on Wednesday, the 19th of February to acquire the venture-backed WhatsApp Inc for USD16bn plus USD3bn in restricted stock units (RSU from now on). The deal Read more…
Yahoo! (Market Capitalization as of 25/05/13: $28.5bn) Tumblr (Market Capitalization: N/A) On May 20th, Yahoo! continued its aggressive strategy since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO by announcing the takeover of New York-based blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1bn, all in cash. Tumblr was founded in 2007 and has more Read more…