<![CDATA[Years after muscling out cofounders, Tom Chavez sells Rapt to Microsoft - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Years after muscling out cofounders, Tom Chavez sells Rapt to Microsoft - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Years after muscling out cofounders, Tom Chavez sells Rapt to Microsoft]]> Let's hope the founders made more money on their remaining holdings than they would have made had they kept control. It ends up that way more often then not, though it makes for a less exciting story.

Not to mention when the company fails after a squeeze play....plenty of room for coulda/woulda/shouldas

dvhw

]]> <![CDATA[Years after muscling out cofounders, Tom Chavez sells Rapt to Microsoft]]> How much could this possibly cost Microsoft? $100 million? 200 million?

Also, notice that Yahoo is a client, which means that Yahoo depends on Rapt to price its banner inventory, which is probably a 30-40% chunk of Yahoo's revenue. So, I wonder if this is really about Microsoft tightening the screws on Yahoo. Given the $44 billion on the table for Yahoo, an extra $100 million seems like a drop in the bucket.

xhooter

]]> <![CDATA[Years after muscling out cofounders, Tom Chavez sells Rapt to Microsoft]]> Didn't this company start as "supply chain enterprise vendor"? Now ad network? Yikes!

ScalaWag

]]> <![CDATA[Years after muscling out cofounders, Tom Chavez sells Rapt to Microsoft]]> I didn't know Tom Hanks-circa 1985 ran a startup! Cool.

It Must Be Take a Worm for a Walk Week

]]>