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Alibaba ended their first day at about $231 billion and I haven't heard anyone say they were 10x overvalued lately: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep
by mrgordon 12y ago
Alibaba ended their first day at about $231 billion and I haven't heard anyone say they were 10x overvalued lately: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/19/alibaba-shares-price-americas-biggest-ipo http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/19/alibaba-shar...
Other big ones include UPS ($60 billion), AT&T ($58 billion), Facebook ($81 billion), Kraft ($54 billion), GM ($49.5 billion), and Visa ($44 billion) plus a bunch of non-US ones. This article has a great table of them: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/05/alibaba-biggest-ipo-by-market-value-of-all-time/ http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/05/alibaba-biggest-ip...
- jgalt212 12y agoOther than Alibaba and Facebook, none of your examples are start-ups. There are many more $20B private valuation companies right than there are historical examples of such companies making it to IPO.