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Creator M&A
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e.l.f. took a $57.6M charge because Rhode beat its targets — how an earnout punishes a winning acquisition
Hailey Bieber's Rhode ran so far past its earnout thresholds that e.l.f. marked the liability up $57.6M — flipping Q4 to a $49.4M GAAP loss on 35% sales growth.
By Elliot Padfield● 4 min
Money
GameSquare paid 0.69x revenue for Click Management — the multiple the roll-up actually clears
GameSquare bought Click Management — $12.4M revenue, 545 deals, 75 creators — for $8.5M, a 0.69x revenue mark that sits below almost every creator-economy M&A headline.
By Elliot Padfield● 4 min