Funding 1% to existing shareholders to sell their bag while getting a $29B valuation is hilarious. Why was it ever started as a non-profit? What BS. Sam Altman keeps getting to fail upward and be unethical. Before it was a $14B valuation. I am guessing Microsoft doesn’t get any stake in the for-profit part. Only the deals they made to comingle when they gave $1B. #tech_companies #silicon_valley #silicon_valley_culture #patterns_insufferable_tech_douches* #AI #valuations #funding #toread

35+ startups worth at least a billion dollars and their funding amounts. #ballers #funding #lists #money #valuations #graphs #pub

List of startups. Showing one-line description, funding, valuation, city (location), type of company, number of employees (and jobs available). http://www.thestartup100.com/companies shows all 139 companies in database Goal of site is probably to refer people to the jobs available and make money from that eventually? #lists #startups #valuations #ballers #funding #data #data_driven #ideas #copycopy #pub

""IAC, which owns a majority stake in the company it helped incubate..." "Tinder saw explosive growth after the Olympics, when athletes were using it heavily at Sochi. Then, it was generating 10 million matches per day." "IAC also owns popular dating services Match and OKCupid." "IAC recently bought another 10 percent of Tinder from venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya for $500 million, according to people with knowledge of the deal. That values the 20-month-old company with 10 million daily users at $5 billion, compared with IAC’s $5.57 billion market capitalization." #online_dating #apps #ballers #valuations #sites #IAC #subsidiaries #money #pub

Dislike for Buzzfeed is super high but they got another $50M in funding in August 2014, totaling almost $100M. And valuation is allegedly $850M. A tweet in article reminds us that Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250M. #funding #media_companies #smh #valuations #pub

"CEO Shane Smith's goal of "total media domination" took a major step forward on Thursday with the announcement that Vice had raised $500 million in funding evenly split from A&E Networks and technology investment firm Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). ... A&E and TCV each took 10% stakes in Vice, valuing the Brooklyn-based company at $2.5 billion. ... The move paves the way for Vice to appear on television screens across the U.S. A&E, a joint venture between Disney and Hearst Ventures, operates 10 cable channels including some with broad distribution. A move into television beyond its HBO show is seen as a natural move for Vice. ... Vice has enjoyed a meteoric rise in value in the past year. The company had taken no known major investments until August 2013, when 21st Century Fox took a 5% stake that valued the company at $1.4 billion." #funding #media_companies #money #news #valuations #web_2.0 #pub

Raised $355M (million) at $5B (billion) valuation. "WeWork’s revenue for December puts it on track to have $150 million in annualized revenue, according the the WSJ." #ballers #companies #revenue #valuations #coworking #startups #funding #from #delicious #pub

#from:DONote #from:phablet #unicorns #startups #lists #guiltypleasures #best_of #funding #money #silicon_valley #tech_companies #valuations #my_porn #pub

https://cbi-blog.s3.amazonaws.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/USA-of-Unicorns-body-image-3.png #best_of #funding #lists #money #silicon_valley #startups #tech_companies #unicorns #valuations #guiltypleasures #pub

Elon apparently buying up $100M of spacex shares during new funding round #elon_musk #net_worth #spacex #funding #valuations #pub

Worth $5.1B with a ton of funding already. Seems like after this round they have over a billion in funding if I’m understanding correctly? #money #year:2017 #valuations #softbank #slack #boss #funding #unicorns #pub

“Topped 1 bullion users...Expected to have 2 billion users in 5 years” — “Instagram could account for about 16 percent of Facebook’s revenue over the next year, up from 10.6 percent last year” — _Chart shows valuation growth. $1B in mid 2012. $35B Citigroup valuation in 2014. And now $100B valuation in mid 2018._ — And as already known. Estimates of revenue for 2018 and 2019 are $6B and $10B. #valuations #numbers #growth #instagram #my_porn #pub

#revenue #valuations #my_porn #news #tech_companies #slack #Facebook #twitter #pub

In 2016, a down round to valuation around just $350M. #valuations #favs #foursquare #startups #funding #year:2016 #pub

CB Insights and The New York Times team up to spot high-momentum startups. #unicorns #tech_companies #my_porn #lists #valuations #startups #funding #silicon_valley #best_of #guiltypleasures #pub

Our market map highlights which markets boast the most private companies with billion-dollar valuations. #unicorns #lists #my_porn #valuations #startups #tech_companies #funding #silicon_valley #best_of #guiltypleasures #pub

As Google nears 200 M&A deals since its YouTube acquisition back in 2006, we visualize the tech giant's top 10 acquisitions. #startups #acquisitions #lists #funding #valuations #best_of #guiltypleasures #my_porn #google #tech_companies #tech_giants #silicon_valley #unicorns #toread #pub