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Plenty of non-startup companies trade at 20-100x P/E ratios. Dropbox is clearly insanely profitable at only 65 employees. Especially because they are running d
by gduffy 15y ago
Plenty of non-startup companies trade at 20-100x P/E ratios.
Dropbox is clearly insanely profitable at only 65 employees. Especially because they are running de-duplicated storage on top of highly negotiated AWS pricing (they are likely the biggest AWS customer, and AWS certainly does custom pricing deals for big customers).
And startup P/E ratios should be higher than established companies because you are making a riskier bet for a higher potential payoff.
They could be doing $100 million in revenue (a 4% freemium conversion on their $99/yr plan at 25E6 users) and it wouldn't be crazy at all. Or any number of other configurations.