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Maybe... but nobody really thinks of it that way, any more than they bother to worry about what fair market value of the assets (the other part of the purchase price) is for an early-stage tech company. They just care about the overall price, and they leave splitting that into FMV and goodwill as an exercise for the accountants after the deal is done.


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