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It's funny that $4b is deemed "way too much" for Yahoo when Snapchat is valued at $20b something, and Linkedin was bought for $26b. And Instagram and Whatsapp a
by chinhodado 10y ago
It's funny that $4b is deemed "way too much" for Yahoo when Snapchat is valued at $20b something, and Linkedin was bought for $26b. And Instagram and Whatsapp and all the other unicorns.
- bduerst 10y agoWere Instagram and Whatsapp unicorns? FB put down billion dollar purchases for them, but they weren't the inflated-valuation investor rodeos we see with unicorns.
- TuringNYC 10y agoIt seems you are just randomly comparing tech companies by bid/sale value...what about actual value? There is incredible value to LinkedIn, and the 7x multiple is entirely sensible. They have the world's largest resume database, active users, major network effects, and near zero competition. Yahoo has nothing close to that. I'm not saying that drives a 4B$ valuation exactly, but comparing Yahoo to LinkedIn is apples to oranges.