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Zoom missed a good opportunity to buy slack. They could have used their inflated stock price to purchase it snd consolidate into a WFH platform. The only weakness is probably the Zoom CEO who probably wouldn’t know how to run both businesses. But I think that would have been a better match than salesforce

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There is no way in hell any company would accept a buyout offer for $25+ billion worth of Zoom stock at their current (very inflated) price.

“No way in hell”?? Sounds like you know nothing about how business works. Plenty of companies use their stock price to buy other companies, regardless of what you think the value is.

It seems that Salesforce stock price could also be considered pretty inflated looking at their PE ratio.

It'll at least be 50% cash, as the article says.

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