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During a conversation I had last week a colleague who's dealt with Twitter told me that they make $100M-$200M each year licensing the firehose.
by malloreon 16y ago
During a conversation I had last week a colleague who's dealt with Twitter told me that they make $100M-$200M each year licensing the firehose.
- samtp 16y agoSo they have a 20 - 40x valuation? wow
- cheald 16y agoValuation is not the same as "yearly income". Not anywhere close to that. If you sell a company for 1 year's worth of income, you're a fool.
- axod 16y agoHow many customers do they have though. If they're 'licensing' the firehose to Google and MS, that's pretty unreliable income.
- malloreon 16y agoPublicly their firehose customers include Google, MS, and ~10-12 startups whose names I don't know. Soon they'll begin seeing revenue from the new half/10% hose plans announced last week.