Disney's new 1.5bil stake in Epic Games, Microsoft / Blizzard Aquisition.. Think Valve's next?

[dantès]

Apple is Lurking... mergers and acquisitions on the horizon..

beginning of the end?

[Wolfpig]

potato původně napsal:

WolfEisberg původně napsal:

That doesn't change anything at all, it literally does not matter if an investor is a public or private company. If Gabe Newell wants to get outside investors into Valve he can do that all the while staying private just like how Epic has stayed as a private company while getting outside investors.

it changes everything cause newell isn't little timmy

He wants money for his foodbill too.

[potato]

Wolfpig původně napsal:

He wants money for his foodbill too.

foodbill?

[WolfEisberg]

Nx Machina původně napsal:

@ Dante

There are no shares to buy. Why? Because unlike competitors such as Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Epic, Valve Corporation opted to remain privately OWNED and does not have investors, nor shares.

Epic on the other hand despite being listed as a private company has a "SHARE" price, hence why In an e-mail to Polygon , Epic founder Tim Sweeney revealed that Chinese publishing giant Tencent PURCHASED 48.4 percent of Epic Games' (ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL) in July, "equating to 40 percent of total Epic capital" and giving the company the right to appoint two representatives to Epic's board.

Epic is no longer privately owned by it's founders because it has investors who have a voice in what happens to the company. In order to be privately owned Epic needs to purchase all existing shares owned by others to have 100% control.

Companies are either privately owned or publicly owned. Epic is privately owned because its not traded on the public market.

[On Vacation]

Google had shareholders well before it went public. In fact, part of the reason it went public is because it had over 500 shareholders and more than $10 million in assets. That's the threshold the SEC has set for a forced IPO. Of course they could have gotten out of this by consolidating ownership, but that's besides the point.

There is nothing that precludes Valve from having investors, stock options, shareholders etc. as a private corporation. Same for any other C or S corporation in the US. Not that there is anything to suggest they have investors, but nothing prevents it.

Epic is also privately held. There seem to be some very odd ideas on what "public" and "private" actually mean. Were shares issued through an IPO? No. Are shares traded on a public exchange? No. Then it's private. It's really that simple. Private does not and has never meant that 100% of shares are owned within the company.

[lx]

On Vacation původně napsal:

... It's really that simple.

if it was a simple scam, it would be easily spotted