Investing in MobilityThe ingredients of Mobility are out there, we just need to cook it up!
The bold idea is for LinkedIn to acquire Coursera and Elance and then integrating these educational, practical and professional resources to set up Mobility. Source of funding - In June 2016, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn with US$26 billion all in cash. LinkedIn could use this as source of funding. Use of funding - LinkedIn needs to broke two separate deals. One with Coursera, the other with ELance. So far Coursera has received around US$ 157.7 million and is still experimenting with monetization. ELance received US$94.8 million for equity funding and merged with another player due to competition. Further investigation is needed for valuation. Return - Based on the author's estimation, revenue of Mobility can reach US$15 billion after five years of operation. Of course, this estimation is based on many assumptions especially how well the market receives this new ecosystem. |