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Twitter bought Crashlytics for 'well over' $100M, correcting $38M reports

Jeff Seibert · Digits Wants to Replace Quickbooks, $30m Raised, 4 years of Building Distribution, Launch is Next · Feb 10, 2022 · at 7:58

Jeff Seibert corrects host Nathan Latka on the acquisition price Twitter paid to buy Crashlytics in 2013.

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“It was yeah, it wasn't 38. It was over a hundred, well over a hundred.”

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The claim, plainly

Twitter acquired Crashlytics for well over $100 million, rather than the reported $38 million figure.

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Assessment

Twitter's official SEC disclosures directly contradict the claim. In both Twitter's Form S-1 filed in October 2013 and its Form 10-K filed in March 2014 (Note 3, Acquisitions), Twitter disclosed the total purchase price for the January 2013 acquisition of Crashlytics, Inc. as $38.2 million paid in Twitter common stock ($5.0 million allocated to developed technology, $0.3 million to tangible assets, $0.3 million to deferred tax liabilities, $0.1 million to liabilities assumed, and $33.3 million to goodwill). While media reports noted that unvested multi-year employee retention packages and subsequent equity appreciation may have pushed the total compensation value higher over time, the formal transaction consideration at acquisition was $38.2 million, not 'well over $100 million'.

Twitter, Inc. Form S-1 Registration Statement (filed October 3, 2013) Note 3 lists the Crashlytics acquisition purchase price as $38.2 million in common stock.
Twitter, Inc. Form 10-K for FY ended December 31, 2013 (filed March 6, 2014) Note 3 confirms the total purchase price for Crashlytics as $38.2 million.

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"Crashlytics" "purchase price of $38.2 million" "In January 2013, the Company acquired Crashlytics, Inc." "Crashlytics" Twitter "S-1" OR "10-K" acquisition consideration million OR shares "Crashlytics" "Note 3" OR "Note 4" "Business Combinations" Twitter S-1 OR "10-K" "Crashlytics" "Twitter" "$100 million" TechCrunch 2013

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