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Zynga Raising $500 Million at $10 Billion Valuation
- guelo 16y agoThe round includes big institutional investors Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity Investments Oh gawd, here comes Wall Street again, they ruin everything. Bubble 2.0!
- astrodust 16y agoI can't wait for the AAA-certified "Startup-Backed Financial Instruments" that they can sell to all the pension funds they didn't totally bankrupt the first time.
- robryan 16y agoActually easier to obscure the true value of a startup than a mortgage, might be onto something there.
- Charuru 16y agoBut it's only 10 times revenue.
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- r00fus 16y ago$10B valuation? This is unreal. On what is this valuation based other than "comps"? How did valuation against comparables work to match reality for the real estate bubble?
- patio11 16y agoZynga has revenues in the hundreds of millions, based on "You pay us money and we pay you pixels." They have had explosive growth. Betting on that growth to continue, FB to not bleed them dry, and users to continue loving their product is a bet, but it isn't crazy like saying a pet food company which loses money on every shipment would make it up in volume and hit the same valuation.
- r00fus 16y agoOk, lets get serious here. $10B valuation / $250M revenue/year = 40x multiplier. Do people really think that Zynga is going to continue to deliver for years and years to come?
- czhiddy 16y agoI would say no, but never underestimate the extent of human stupidity. All those bizarre Farmville-branded snacks and drinks at 7-11? Somebody's buying that crap.
- Aetius 16y agoMore like 10B/1B. That's a 10x val.
- patio11 16y agoA 40x multiplier for a company growing as fast as Zynga is is totally reasonable. They aren't a Fortune 500 blue chip whose growth is primarily constrained by the market and macroeconomic factors: there are still more people who have not experienced the joy of virtual cabbage farming out there. I wouldn't sell my index funds and buy Zynga, but if Wall Street is investing in them, I think that probably isn't in the top half of dumbest things Wall Street will do this year.
- notahacker 16y agoI'm not sure there actually are that many people that haven't discovered the joys of virtual cabbage farming that might be persuaded to do so. They claim 320 million people have tried a game, which is a staggeringly large proportion of free internet users. The amount of worldwide free time spent on Zynga is so ridiculously huge I genuinely can't see the potential for upward trends to continue (other than cornering the Chinese social game market, which will be tough). Unlike Facebook, I don't think it's fair to say they're only scratching the surface of their revenue-generating potential either.
- tsotha 16y agoThis is just more proof that if God actually exists he probably hates us.
- oceanician 16y agoYes, there is no boom!!! WTF!!
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoIs zynga making more money than facebook?