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At any reasonable estimate of Valve's revenue and valuation multiples, they're easily a billion dollar company, I'd be surprised if it was as low as only $1B.
by mikeyouse 11y ago
At any reasonable estimate of Valve's revenue and valuation multiples, they're easily a billion dollar company, I'd be surprised if it was as low as only $1B. They have nearly 500 employees listed on LinkedIn[1] which is probably a decent estimate given people who've left but haven't updated their profiles and those without profiles in the first place. That's not a small company by any stretch, and I think we can all agree they're purposefully making the decision to not offer competent support.
[1] - https://www.linkedin.com/company/13922?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2Cidx%3A2-1-4%2CtarId%3A1437979031171%2Ctas%3Avalve https://www.linkedin.com/company/13922?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clic...
- ekianjo 11y ago> I'd be surprised if it was as low as only $1B. They have nearly 500 employees > That's not a small company by any stretch Please, give me more examples of billion dollars companies which have only 500 employees.
- jsnell 11y agoInstagram. Oculus. WhatsApp. SuperCell. GungHo. Mojang. Twitch.tv. It'd be easy to go on. And I'd bet there's no way Valve is just a $1 billion company.
- ekianjo 11y agoI don't know about all of them, but do you realize that we are talking about 1B$ ACTUAL revenue in current dollars of sales, not valuation ? These are two very different things.
- jsnell 11y agoI'm pretty sure the discussion was about valuation / market cap: > At any reasonable estimate of Valve's revenue and valuation multiples, they're easily a billion dollar company
- addandsubtract 11y agoHow about valuations based on revenue then...
- ekianjo 11y agoIf they already have one billion in revenues their valuation is likely much higher than that.
- addandsubtract 11y agoInstagram, Oculus, WhatsApp, Twitch.tv don't have a billion dollar revenue.
- ekianjo 11y agoThat was precisely my point.
- ekianjo 11y agoThey already most likely already have a billion in revenues.