Rivers: Public markets would never permit Dell's $67B acquisition of EMC
J.R. Rivers · a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:38
J.R. Rivers discusses how privatization allowed Dell to orchestrate the acquisition of EMC, which public equity markets would not have enabled.
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“When they went private, their market cap was twenty four billion dollars. So tell me in what public market you're going to find a twenty four billion dollar company acquiring a sixty seven billion dollar company. Not going to freaking happen.”
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