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Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
Exactly. But the projection has to at least make some kind of sense, dunnit? Through which business model would one be able to extract a bare minimum of $4.x billion in 4-6 years from the fonts curr…4 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
Even so, the $4B ask is hard to justify. What we call the "marketplace of typefaces/foundries" has changed drastically in the last 4 years. There is dramatic saturation and plenty of headw…6 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
Yep, my bad. Thanks for the correction. Still a 40x multiple, though. This is the kind of figure tech companies were using to value themselves during the pandemic. Proponents of such high valuations…2 -
Re: "HGGC Explores $4 Billion Sale of Typeface Firm Monotype"
$200M net sounds artificially inflated. But even if it is real, after TDA it would be about $100M, and after salaries and expenses it would be even less. $4B means they're asking for a multiplier in …5 -
Re: The Hustle: Where do fonts come from?
Don't know about "well researched" there. All these articles about Monotype I've seen over the years either don't dig deep enough or just neglect to mention a crucial 15-year period of the …17
