SlideShare acquired by LinkedIn

Wow. 3MM raised, 119MM exit. 40x return, and they made that 3MM last 4 years from 2008-2012 with revenue. Congratulations!

I don't know what the cash/stock split was, but it's worth mentioning the LinkedIn's IPO raised $352M* so buying SlideShare was just under 34% of all the money they raised.<p>* <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-18/linkedin-raises-352-8-million-in-ipo-as-shares-priced-at-top-end-of-range.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-18/linkedin-raises-352...</a>

I just looked at LinkedIn's P/E. It's almost a thousand. How is anyone valuating the company in such a way that could even assume they would increase their revenues 50 times over in the next few years?

Congrats to team SlideShare. Good product!<p>Wondering whats the goal of LinkedIn for this acquisition? It is not a people acquisition. And SlideShare is already integrated with LinkedIn's platform. So I'm curious!

This is incredibly good news - no not because it's another acquisition but rather it is an acquisition of a quality and worthwhile business that has a defined set of competitive advantages to sustain itself in the long-term. Love it.

Does LinkedIn own a Webex yet? If they're going from a recruiting site to a full business-communications type model (archiving, in this case) they're going to need it.

Congratulations to the Slideshare team. Very inspiring to all the women and minority entrepreneurs (and to everybody else of course)

One of the stars of the New Delhi start-up circuit! Kudos to the team.

This makes total sense to me - slides and enterprise are like bread and butter