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joshdavham 86 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate o...

Any idea why mergers aren’t more common? The article doesn’t really seem to have an answer to that.

debacle 86 days ago [–]

How much should one company with a 40mm valuation and no revenue pay for another company with a 25mm valuation and no revenue?

joshdavham 86 days ago | [–]

Great point.

I guess to say it more explicitly, the problem is that the companies are likely over-valued at the early stage and investors would see a merger as a sort of failure?

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