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		jarek on July 20, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sparrow acquired by Google > Plenty of apps have existed for decades on those prices. Most of these weren't funded by VCs expecting some sort of liquidity event to get return on their investment.

shinratdr on July 21, 2012 [–]

Fair enough but it's not like it was some once-in-a-lifetime buyout, it was $25 million and it was for talent not the app. Did the VCs really make that much off this sale?

jarek on July 21, 2012 | [–]

$5 million in the hand is better than $10 Mac App Store sales in the cloud, apparently

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