Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding

Post by brundolf » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 4:08 AM UTC

djrogers wrote: post #92

superbcarrot wrote: post #29

Sometimes I get shocked by these numbers and it reminds me how little I know about business. Like if you showed me the wikipedia page for Zapier and asked me give it some value, I would be way off. Or if you pitched the business idea to me, I would tell you do something better with your time.

I’m not surprised that people on a developer focused forum would find little to no value in something that enables automation without programming. Y’all can probably automate interactions with hundreds of web based services in your sleep, using multiple languages, with unit tests, and a Turing complete ML-based proxy server for high availability. For the rest of us, Zapier is a little like magic. Granted there are ot…

Post by DougN7 » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 4:36 AM UTC

chii wrote: post #109

valzam wrote: post #74

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However, Amazon never pays dividends. And you probably cannot really vote on anything with your stock either. So what's the point? There is an interesting article about Facebook with a similar opinion. Zuck owns the majority vote and they never pay dividends. What's the point of owning the stock?

> What's the point of owning the stock? to sell for capital gains when it is higher in the future. Dividends aren't the only way to generate a profit. And for a lot of high income earners, dividends are very tax inefficient as well.

Post by quickthrowman » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 4:45 AM UTC

ab_testing wrote: post #61

artemonster wrote: post #57

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Any other good sources, like books or articles ?

The valuation of current tech companies is way astronomical compared to what is considered normal for mature companies. The average price to sales for S&P used to be between 1.5-2.5 for many decades. However for these newly IPO companies the price to sales ratios are around 10-15. Similarly the P/E ratio for S&P companies used to be in the 15-25 range to the considered normal . However with these internet companies,…

Post by beachy » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 5:01 AM UTC

iambateman wrote: post #192

superbcarrot wrote: post #29

Sometimes I get shocked by these numbers and it reminds me how little I know about business. Like if you showed me the wikipedia page for Zapier and asked me give it some value, I would be way off. Or if you pitched the business idea to me, I would tell you do something better with your time.

Despite the replies, I thought this was a good take. $5,000,000,000 is a truly unimaginable amount in both senses of the word unimaginable. I couldn’t tell the difference between a $5B and $7B company, for example. And it’s especially hard to tell for a service which is, somewhat by nature, invisible. But my smart, non-programmer friends love Zapier and I imagine many of their customer relationships will be multi-dec…

Post by CapnCrunchie » Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 5:24 AM UTC

sjg007 wrote: post #157

RC_ITR wrote: post #126

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The process of hiring someone for 'Download attachments from this email address to my Dropbox, then create a note in Quickbooks to pay the invoice' is a lot more complicated / expensive than just using Zapier. I think you're overestimating what people use Zapier for.

I think someone could make a good living as a Zapier consultant.