Season 3, Episode 5: Alibaba

Yeah, that Yeah, like does for Google suggested search. What happened to Yahoo Steak in Alivada? Oh wait, I forgot about Altaba. Oh God. The remaining company is Altaba, which is a holding company of everything that wasn't Yahoo. Altaba is worth ten times more than what Verizon paid for Yahoo itself. Oh, they have a website. Look at this. Company profile, independent. This is on their website. Altava Inc. is an independent, publicly traded, non diversified, closed and management investment company registered under the nineteen forty Act.

Wow, what a mess. Oh Welcome to season three, episode five of Acquired, the show about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal. And we are your hosts. Today we are continuing our quest to more deeply understand China Tech.

with Alibaba. So before we dive in, a few fun facts about Alibaba. They have the largest US based IPO of all time. Alibaba is China's biggest tech company.

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