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by ChuckMcM 1903 days ago
In the case that I am completely familiar with the business was returning $20M/year in net profit margin on roughly $180M/year in revenue. Google threw it away.

Their reasoning was that the resource usage to net profit numbers wasn't "good enough." The comparison was always search advertising.

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Would you be at liberty to describe at least generally what sort of a business it was?

Thanks!