“We’re facing a technology IPO tsunami. It may start with Twitter, or Facebook, or Zynga, but it’s coming and all it requires is a Netscape moment. And when it happens, expect all these implausible recent financial events—from Yelp allegedly turning down a Google acquisition, to investors competing to put money into companies that don’t need any more—to make much more sense. There was another suitor for these companies, and that suitor was us. We just didn’t know it yet.”
Source TechCrunch