From the Twitter thread:
Isn’t it more accurate to say that Mattel killed the edu software industry? 3.6 billion is a heck of a price to pay for a software company in 1999.
Not really, Leary was the one who cut R&D to make the companies attractive to buyout.
All I know of Kevin O’Leary is from watching Dragon’s Den Canada where I got the impression he was just one gigantic asshole. My wife came to the same assessment.