{"id":164,"date":"2006-10-09T16:31:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T23:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2006-10-09T16:31:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T23:31:40","slug":"480-million-reasons-to-take-a-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/480-million-reasons-to-take-a-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"480 million reasons to take a risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nEarlier today I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=161\">an entry about Sevin Rosen&#8217;s stated intent to stop raising venture funds because there were no good exits<\/a>. Well, the timing couldn&#8217;t have been better. Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a> announced the acquisition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a> for $1.6B in stock.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnother venture firm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sequoiacap.com\/sequoia-capital\/\">Sequoia Capital<\/a>, put $11.5M into YouTube for what was believed to be a 30% stake in the company. Let&#8217;s do the math, shall we? $1.6B x .3 = $480M. That&#8217;s not chump change and it constitutes a 40x return on investment. Not a bad day at the office.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCongrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a> and to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/\">Google<\/a>, I think both will benefit and prosper from the deal.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOhio State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2006 record: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/ncaaf\/teams\/oob;_ylt=ApiRDtt7p8MTZpktFXDiDqUcvrYF\">6-0<\/a> Next up: @Michigan State 10\/14<br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=159382815&#038;s=143441&#038;i=159382869\">Oh Mary<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diamondville.com\/\">Neil Diamond<\/a><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/google\" rel=\"tag\"> Google<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/youtube\" rel=\"tag\"> YouTube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/acquisition\" rel=\"tag\"> Acquisition<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\"> Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today I wrote an entry about Sevin Rosen&#8217;s stated intent to stop raising venture funds because there were no good exits. Well, the timing couldn&#8217;t have been better. Today, Google announced the acquisition of YouTube for $1.6B in stock. Another venture firm, Sequoia Capital, put $11.5M into YouTube for what was believed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}