Techcrunch posted purported internal Yahoo documents supporting an acquisition of Facebook for up to $1.6B. $1.6B? Are you kidding me? As I've posted before, the child prodigies running Facebook should take the money and run - even if it's "only" $1B.
Anyway, the Techcrunch Yahoo docs include some high level model readouts. All I can say is that I don't think I'd want to explain to senior management that my business case for a $1.6B price depends on believing that a service like Facebook can:
- Be regularly used by 60% of high school and young adult internet users and
- Reach sustainable 58% profit margins (up a tad from today's -33%)
At least they're using a 19% discount rate. I know things are tough at Yahoo, but overpaying for a MySpace also-ran like Facebook isn't the answer.
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