Late Thursday night, the Financial Times reported that Apple AAPL -0.42%
was in talks to buy Beats for $3.2 billion; the deal would be the
computer giant’s largest acquisition ever. Dre’s stake in Beats
currently stands at somewhere around 20-25%; we valued the company at $2
billion in our latest round of estimates.
A
sale for $3.2 billion would nearly double the value of Dre’s holdings,
though capital gains taxes could take a bite out of his big payday,
likely leaving him with a net worth in the neighborhood of $800 million.
It’s not quite enough to land on the Forbes 400, but it would easily
make him hip-hop’s richest man, topping current champion Diddy by $100
million.
“Beats has a unique brand—it speaks to a nice young demographic, which is really interesting to marketers,” said Peter Csathy, former president of Musicmatch, an early digital music purveyor acquired by Yahoo YHOO -0.47%
in 2004 for $160 million. “When I think about Beats, I think about it
as a lifestyle, I think of it as a media company, not just a hardware
and music-focused company.”The value of that brand would also make a handful of other wealthy entrepreneurs even wealthier if the Apple deal goes through. Beats recently raised $60 million in funding from current investors including Dre, cofounder Jimmy Iovine and billionaire Len Blavatnik, via his company Access Industries.
A sale would also nix the possibility of a Beats IPO, which some speculated could be in the offing after the company hired chief financial officer An De Vooght, who spent 16 years in a similar role at Red Bull after stints at Sony and Price Waterhouse, in March.
Apple’s Beats buyout is still not official, and could certainly fall through. In the meantime, though, Dre appears set to break new ground in the business of music yet again.
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