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I responded to what you actually wrote in your previous comment:

> Some multiple on the last funding round (perhaps a multiple <1)

The irrational part is that it could possibly be a fraction of their last round of funding. Do you agree it would have to be a multiple much greater than 1, since their last round of funding (750 million) was a small fraction of their profit last year, and they are on the path of exceeding their total accumulated funding for all rounds in another two years?

I've never seen a profiting company valued based on their last round of funding rather than current/future revenue/profits. Do you have any examples of this, in the real world?



No, it wouldn’t have to be. Perhaps it would be, perhaps it wouldn’t be, as I said.


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520384

Again, do you have an example of the current value of a company, with similar circumstances, being based on the last round of funding?




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