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The article says “hamster wheel”, not that they didn’t take it. The headline here adds ambiguity that wasnt written

• imacoder 6y ago
  If there is a valuation, then there was funding or there will be funding. Looks like funding came from YC, so yeah, they were funded.
  • jeff18 6y ago
    Not necessarily! Shares trade all the time without funding the company. The valuation depends on what people pay for those shares.
    • imacoder 6y ago
      If it has shares, it's funded. Doesn't matter if they are traded later. Also, HN is an echo chamber.
• dang 6y ago
  OK, we've disambiguated that in the title above. (Submitted title was "Zapier reached a $5B valuation without VC funding".)