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Veritas Capital expands education portfolio with another merger! - bjcheung77 - 03-02-2022
Veritas Capital snaps up an educational, learning technology company, HMHC (equity value of approximately $2.8 billion).
Link: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to be Acquired by Veritas Capital (hmhco.com)
RE: Veritas Capital expands education portfolio with another merger! - dfrecore - 03-02-2022
Pretty soon, all of our textbooks will be written by one guy.
RE: Veritas Capital expands education portfolio with another merger! - LevelUP - 03-02-2022
That is a lot of value for a young software company.
You could have bought Ford Motor for just 10 billion back in 2008.
RE: Veritas Capital expands education portfolio with another merger! - dfrecore - 03-02-2022
(03-02-2022, 10:31 AM)LevelUP Wrote: That is a lot of value for a young software company.
You could have bought Ford Motor for just 10 billion back in 2008.
It might be a "young" software company, but it's an old textbook company. It's been around since 1908.
RE: Veritas Capital expands education portfolio with another merger! - Johann - 03-03-2022
(03-02-2022, 07:43 AM)dfrecore Wrote: Pretty soon, all of our textbooks will be written by one guy.Didn't anyone tell you? They WERE - 2003-2021. They just laid off the guy. All computerized now - AI. Cheaper. No benefits etc.
