80 million dollars is a lot to pay for a recommendation engine.
Netflix had their own and paid a million dollars as prize payout for an absolutely state of the art system.
If it really was just a tech acquisition they massively overpaid.
Netflix had their own and paid a million dollars as prize payout for an absolutely state of the art system.
If it really was just a tech acquisition they massively overpaid.
Obviously eBay must see other reasons for the acquisition than just the tech itself.
Also, if it's also in large part a talent acquisition then they're going to paying more than 80 million since they're going to need to pay for some new pairs of golden handcuffs to keep the talent around.
At scale it is. More here:
http://www.quora.com/Hunch/Is-Hunch-actually-doing-anything-... (this one got a vote from one of the founders)