What Is the Story Behind the AWS Investing in Ebay?

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ebay is growing 10 percent a month So check fast growth company. It's profitable All of these checks that are getting mailed in like it is generating cash and growing so Why would you get acquired? Why would you not keep running this thing? Well, it was actually a pretty compelling offer. The reason you would get acquired is they offer pia and jeff 50 million dollars five zero million dollars and that's a thing you would think about taking especially at this moment in time I mean, that's like a lot of money right,. You know exits quote-unquote didn't often happen for that size Let alone exits of like a two-person company that was like was barely a company

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