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This list of valuations seems more reasonable than others I have seen.
Quoted: Putting a value on private companies is hard enough for insiders and venture capitalists who have full access to the company's financial statements. ...
Quoted: Putting a value on private companies is hard enough for insiders and venture capitalists who have full access to the company's financial statements. ...
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Wow. Do you remember when they turned down a valuation of $2 billion and I said they were insane? Guess they turned out right after all...
doesnt mean shit until the money's in the bank :)
It does when they're taking money in the bank along the way at a $20 billion valuation! Ahem, Microsoft!
haha, touche' my friend!
The $15B valuation was bogus in the original analysis as well. Microsoft made a payment of $240M to Facebook. PART of what they received was a 1.6% stake in the company. But that was not all they received. They also got EXCLUSIVE rights to all international advertising revenue on the site. To back-calculate a valuation, you have to subtract the value of that right from their payment.
I don't know why nobody in the press writes about that. Probably because most people in the press don't want to use their brains and they just write whatever anybody else is writing.
in addition, i don't think it has been disclosed whether microsoft received common or preferred shares. if it was preferred, you also have to subtract the value of any preferred privileges from microsoft's payment.
@mike and @mo: Good points and includes some info I did not consider. What I think nobody would argue against at this point, however, is that Facebook made a good decision NOT to sell out for $2 billion.