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There's an interesting analysis of which web company is worth the most per user at http://neptune.observer.com/node/138871 http://neptune.observer.com/node/1388
by whyleyc 15y ago
There's an interesting analysis of which web company is worth the most per user at http://neptune.observer.com/node/138871 http://neptune.observer.com/node/138871 - LinkedIn ranks 3rd on their list of 9 arbitrary companies:
Groupon - $210
Facebook - $105
LinkedIn - $33.33
Zynga - $25.58
Twitter - $18.05
Foursquare - $20
Tumblr - $15
Skype - $1.56
- eli 15y agoI know very little about the stock market, but isn't the individual share price totally meaningless on its own?
- reitzensteinm 15y agoIt is, but the above list is per user, not per share, which certainly has meaning.
- corin_ 15y agoNot totally meaningless, but certainly it doesn't tell you the value of the company unless you know how many shares exist. However, the comment you replied to isn't about stock prices, it's about the value of each user for each of those companies - user as in somebody who uses those services.
- pstack 15y agoThat isn't the point they're making here, though. They're comparing the valuation with the size of the user base. For example, at $3b for LinkedIn, divided by the number of users they have, it comes to about $33.33 per user. In other words, a sort of very rough market valuation of what the industry thinks the users are worth, I suppose.
- eli 15y agoGot it, thanks.
- AlexandrB 15y agoI find it interesting that a Groupon user ends up being so highly valued by the market. I wonder if it's because Groupon can make money from each user in ways other than advertising.
- trotsky 15y agoI doubt it - Skype is last on the list yet first on the list of paid products. The fact that groupon's rev comes from a percentage of sales doesn't really mean they aren't advertising based, anyway. It's pretty much the same as running CPA (cost per action) ads. I think common wisdom is that they're valued based on the size of the local ad market and because of how hard it's been for others to break into local.
- AlexandrB 15y agoAh, I forgot about Skype. Anecdotally though, most people I know only use the free parts of Skype.
- michaelbuckbee 15y agoMy understanding is that Skype makes the bulk of their money off of international calls bridged Skype to that country's local telephone service (which is often substantially less than calling cards, or direct long distance).