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IBM had ~$14B cash to start the year.

Additionally, you don't need the full purchase price in cash to buy the company. You can do leveraged buyouts, etc.



IBM M&A person: "We'd like to buy you in all IBM stock! <jazz hands>"

Hopefully someone at HashiCorp: "Hell no, cash please"


IBM stock is basically cash. Limited growth potential, very stable, fat dividend.


Press release says it's all cash at $35/sh using cash-on-hand for the purchase.


Ugh, and have you actually looked at IBM’e share price? Or is it this because IBM isn’t cool to you? A bit rich for a community that’ll go work for shares in some dinky web app startup.


Yes I did, it was overextended by about 30 points yesterday




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