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Reses: Yahoo Earned $50 Billion Through Renegotiated Alibaba Deal
“It probably generated fifty billion dollars worth of economics to Yahoo shareholders”
Only 11 Venture-Backed IPOs Have Surpassed $50B in Market Cap
“There's been 11 fifty billion dollar IPOs ever. Venture backed. 11. Ok? The two largest venture backed IPOs ever, Or Facebook in 2012 and Alibaba in 2014.”
Alibaba's free DingTalk wiped out the Chinese enterprise chat startup market
“Alibaba released DingTalk, which is a free workplace collaboration and chat product. And it's been free and it's basically completely sucked away that market and run away with it. And now really nobody wants to build a chat enterprise chat product anymore beca…”
Green: Alibaba made $1B in profit when Lead Edge invested
“Alibaba was very cash efficient, actually, when we invested, it was a billion dollars of profit.”
GGV Capital invested in Alibaba in 2003 at a $200M valuation
“GGB was an early investor in Alibaba Group, and back in 2003, the two hundred million dollar valuation.”
Alibaba Pitch Framed Company as eBay, Amazon, and PayPal of China
“The story was positioned very simply that, hey, it's the China consumer play, and they are the eBay plus Amazon plus PayPal of China.”