Lenovo × Motorola Acquisition Pitch Deck

On 15 August 2011 Google announced it had bought Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. With it Google acquired more than 20,000 mobile patents. Three years later, in 2014, Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo in a deal valued at $2.91 billion, with $660M in cash.

On paper, Google lost nearly $10 billion on the sale, but this calculation fails to note that Google retained $5.5bn worth of Motorola patents along with the company's R&D lab. In 2013, Google acquired Waze for $1.3B through the entity "Motorola Mobility Holding", but Waze was was not included in the sale of Motorola to Lenovo.

Lenovo bought Motorola from Google with the goal of creating a 'premier global smartphone player' and the deck claimed the acquisition made Lenovo the third biggest smartphone maker. Their plans did not pan out: by 2017, Lenovo had fallen from #5 to #8 in the global smartphone market, taking just 3% market share.

$2.9B • 2014 • Acquisition  

About the Lenovo × Motorola Acquisition Pitch Deck

  • Raised: $2.9B
  • Year: 2014
  • Stage: Acquisition
  • Investors: Lenovo

About Lenovo × Motorola Acquisition

Lenovo acquired Motorola Mobility from Google for ~$2.91 billion in 2014, three years after Google bought Motorola for $12.5 billion.

  • Industry: Hardware
  • Tags: Smartphones, Mobile, Mobile Devices, Hardware, Computing
  • Business Model: B2B2C
  • Customer Model: Other
  • Website: motorola.com
  • Legal Name: Lenovo × Motorola Acquisition

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