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A $14B to $18B dollar company offering an all stock deal worth about 2x as much as its market cap.

This isn't a serious offer, its a publicity stunt. Google would effectively own the entire company short of some mind blowing multiple expansion here.

Watch for Perplexity to be raising money in the next 6 months. But given this stunt it looks like they think their growth is over and they've peaked as a company.


My exact thoughts as well, this “offer” might as well be a cry for Google to take a controlling interest in Perplexity lol
If it's worth $18B, and Chrome is worth $34B, then the new company is worth $52B. Google gets 34/52 = 65% of the merged company.

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