The Adjacency Expansion · Growth & Portfolio
Microsoft Didn't Pay $26 Billion for 430 Million Résumés. It Bought a Graph.
Microsoft paid $26.2 billion for LinkedIn in 2016 - a 50% premium over LinkedIn's pre-announcement share price, driven by a nine-offer bidding war against a rival. But the headline number hides the real prize: not the members, the graph behind them.
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