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Remember when AOL was worth $100 billion? And one of the buyers was the inventor of satellite TV?

Zuck may well be right, but it's not ipso fscto. He just made an acquisition bigger than anything ever done by Steve Jobs, Bill Gates etc. Or Warren Buffet for that matter.

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Small correction, Warren Buffet spent over $34billion on BNSF

Or Skype for that matter (what eBay bought it for, and what they sold it to Microsoft for).

In comparison, NeXT which became the foundation for almost everything Apple has done since 1997 cost about $650M if I remember correctly.

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