olaric:
Hope the police won't come for the guy on the left because he's got dreadlocks? I mean our policemen need serious orientation.

Nightstalker:


Where are those thieves ? To all the cursed animals who boast here about Yahoo take a look at this !!

Iyo cartel you thief you scum bag you criminal , see your life ?!!!

While bastards like you are thinking how to send scan emails your mates working and earning legit
Bloody thief!! See how useless and cursed the lives of Yahoo boys are ?

Useless slawormir see your mates !!! Animal !! See as they are doing things .
They sold their company for $200k and can relax and spend with peace of mind but you will be awake every night sending scam emails to get $50 off your victims you useless good for nothing bastard .. that illiterate iyo cartel who should be selling gala in ibadan comes here to make noise and disturb this forum with his fraudulent activities see your mates!! Useless bastards!!!

Sirmwill:
He should not have sold it
If at all he had to,it should have been far above that price na
60000 users is not beans ooo...and considering the fact that they could still grow very powerful than this

Google once offered themselves for acquisition to Yahoo,but Yahoo declined.You know the rest...
These big companies will not want to acquire small companies if they don't see tendencies
All paystack needed was further patience and more investors

Biko
One of these billionaire companies should come and acquire Nairaland...

Reasons
1.Nairaland has far more active traffic than almost all other Nigerian sites
2.I want Seun Osewa to become a millionaire in dollars

Seun,if this should happen,don't settle for less than 1billion dollars...It get why

sylve11:
Over $200m. That's some massive funds. Congrats man!

SmartPolician:


The day a foreign company will acquire Nairaland, you will see the difference between a company run by foreigners and that by a Nairaland.

I have known Nairaland for years, you rarely new features on it.

If it was owned by a white man, you would wake up almost every week to new features.

We are backward in this country for a reason

southniyikaye:
[s]I wanted to ignore you but let me enlighten you a bit so you don't become totally useless to yourself[/s]

southniyikaye:
thanks bro, am learning bit by bit with grasshopper

CSTRR:
There is nothing good about foreign companies swallowing up any bright indigenous company.

The shareholders will smile to the Bank, but that is all.
The country is worse off.

When I read that canal+ acquired Rok studios for $100m, I realised that Nigerians are very short-sighted.

Nigerians would have sold apple or YouTube when they were still struggling.

AllOfUsAtManna:
good news

They should give us full stripe capabilities oo
make dem no do like PayPal that just added Nigeria just for adding sake that even ordinary Niger Republic and Lesotho has better functional features than Nigeria

Gmajor:


Location

tensazangetsu20:

YouTube was sold to google bros. Besides acquisitions aren't always a bad thing. A lot of companies are acquired by big tech giants daily. It speaks good for Nigerian ecosystems and the talent we have. If this continues, a lot of Nigerian programmers will be able to get remote jobs with companies abroad and also funding for their own ideas which would lead to upward social mobility. Rejoice!!!!

southniyikaye:
One of my regrets in life, rejecting computer science for biosystems engineering..
Shey now, me self for dey create apps worth millions of dollars

Modified - - - -una go Everly get issue with my personal regrets and decisions..
As I dey regret am now, he give una headache? Na your regret? Na my mistake? abeg let me regret my regret in peace biko

SmartPolician:


The day a foreign company will acquire Nairaland, you will see the difference between a company run by foreigners and that by a Nigerian.

I have known Nairaland for years, you rarely see new features on it.

If it was owned by a white man, you would wake up almost every week to new features.

We are backward in this country for a reason

CSTRR:

YouTube was sold to google for peanuts and the previous owners regret It till today.

That is typical Nigerian behaviour.

I don't see how not selling off our best tech companies stop Nigerians from getting jobs from abroad.

In fact , if companies like paystack grow to be world Standard, it would do better in marketing Nigerian programming skills.

MikeMicheal:
MAKES ME WONDER HOW MUCH PAYPAL WILL BE WORTH
Financial web services and ICT seems to be the new blood money.

tensazangetsu20:

1.65 billion dollars is peanuts. Do you even know how much it would have cost for the founders to maintain YouTube if they didn't sell. Maybe they didn't have the resources then to scale the platform. The founder is worth over 300 million dollars and has stakes in a ton of successful startups. Poverty can never near his generation. The social effects of YouTube too are immense. Many people have learnt skills there and the content creators make money from ads. It's not always bad to be acquired. In this case, it's amazing for Nigeria.

nograv:
Abokis look and learn, see how knowledge and work can make you rich!!!

Mtcheww #GetRidOfTheNorth..

cdm4live:
Good deal.
Just look at how technology is making people rich.

Buy this quality shoe for yourself or your boyfriend. Grab it for a giveaway price.

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CSTRR:

Yes, a billion dollars is peanuts when you consider that YouTube is worth $300b today.

If the cost of maintaining YouTube was great, he could have gotten outside investment without completely losing ownership.
Zukerbag was just a student when he founded Facebook.
He did not sell Facebook because of the cost of maintainace even when bill gates made an offer.
He was smarter than most grown men.

Yes, the previous owner of YouTube IS a millionaire by all standards.
But he could have been a billionaire today without needing to invest in various start ups.