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So to put this into perspective:

YouTube: $1.7 billion

Instagram: $1 billion

Zynga, with groundbreaking games such as “wizard of oz slot”: $13 billion

https://www.zynga.com/games/

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At the time nobody knew would YouTube or Instagram succeed although they were growing like crazy and generally at the time valuations were lower. Nowadays everything is overvalued plus inflation is driving prices and valuations up in the last 2 years.

It's still unclear whether YouTube would have succeeded without Google. Bandwidth costs were crazy and probably still are now that they support 4k/8k video.

It probably would because investors would put more money into it until they build up their infrastructure but surely Google enabled them to scale enormously.

To be fair , YouTube at the time was not profitable when it was bought . Zynga is not only profitable but it’s a public company .

More context:

At the time of Facebook's acquisition of Instagram Zynga was trading higher than today (it went downhill from there losing over 80% in a few months). The market cap was $9bn.

Zynga was slow to transition from Facebook social gaming to mobile gaming. That's when King and Supercell stepped in. I think that Zynga was and is only old-school mobile gaming company left since King and Supercell got acquired and that's why Take-Two was willing to pay such premium price for it.

That’s just insane, whomever negotiated the sale of that corpse of a company either had some crazy inside pull at TTWO or should be made America’s top negotiator.

As for anyone unlucky enough to still be playing a Zynga game, ( I think words is still active ) the micro transactions frequency I can imagine is going to go through the roof.

Maybe the plan is to mine crypto using the userbase of something as aweful as that, otherwise the old Sony building must be valued at 12.5BB

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