the Alias sale finally happened 2004-04-15 - By Stefan Andersson
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Anthony Rossano wrote:
> Hi Fernando!
> Well, the way this works for Silicon Valley venture capital (often
> called 'vulture capital') is exactly the opposite of Alias getting any
> new investment.
> The 59 million goes to Silicon Graphics, who are then out of the
> picture entirely.
> The Venture firm needs to make returns above market returns, so for
> instance at 20% investment return they would need Alias to generate
> 11.8 million dollars in PROFIT each year. That's 5900 copies of Maya at
> 2000$ each, just to cover the return on investment they want.
well, they have more products than just Maya :)
I think it's good for Alias to break free from SGI. We'll see in the
near future how things will turn out.
regards
/stefan
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