At its height in the fall of 2000, it had quarterly revenues of US$100 million, 1,180 employees and a stock price of US$133.
In August 2001, it bought rival company iXL; by then its quarterly revenues were down to US$11 million.
SBI Group later sold Scient with the other members of Avenue A/Razorfish to a company called aQuantive.
On August 9, 2009, Microsoft sold the firm to Publicis Groupe for $530M in cash and stock.
[5] At the time of the IPO in May 1999, the management team was headed by Eric Greenberg, Chairman and Founder, and Robert M. Howe, President & Chief Executive Officer.