Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
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Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
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Re: Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
#2Cool. I never thought Pinterest would reach this far. It's promising for all web startups.
Re: Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
#3What's their revenue/net?
Re: Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
#4Two notes:
1) They raised $100MM just 9 months ago. That's $300MM raised in
under a year. Money is stupid cheap and this is sorta terrifying.
2) The word "revenue" is not contained within FTW.
Re: Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
#5Pinterest as compared to Instagram is better deserving of this kind of valuation, I think. Their product is so good (pretty much a picture focused front-end) that thousands of others (myself included) have copied. And it works, brilliantly.
I'm confident that they can drive sales... however, can they do something interesting with that.
Or maybe Yahoo should buy them.
Re: Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
#6Do they charge websites for traffic referral?
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Re: Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
#8I would love to see the pitch deck they had for this round.
Re: Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
#9Do they charge websites for traffic referral?
That's only part of it.
It seems this "affinity data" model is the basis for the high hopes and high valuation: http://gigaom.com/2012/03/24/pinterest-weve-got-a-business-m...
Re: Pinterest Completes $200M Funding at $2.5B Valuation
#10I do not understand how the company is being valued at 2.5B. It doesn't look like even the business accounts at Pinterest have any type of fee associated with them.
How do they make money? Or is this valuation most likely based on the possibility of making money down the line?
EDIT:
According to this post, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5254498, it seems like it is based primarily on potential revenue from data mining.