Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
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#23Infibeam - www.infibeam.com is an India based ecomm company and was totally bootstrapped. They're worth > $5B
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#24I'm not sure if you would call starting in NIH raising money, but how about SAS Institute?
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#25Microsoft raised just $1M. Ok, it's off-topic as this was in 1981, but the valuation is way north of $1bn...
And, also relevant is that MS was founded in 1975
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#26Microsoft raised just $1M. Ok, it's off-topic as this was in 1981, but the valuation is way north of $1bn...
> the valuation is way north of $1bn...
That is an understatement ... MSFT's current market cap is $366 bilion and the all-time high market cap was $616 billion in December 1999.
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#27I don't know that they're quite at $1BN dollars yet, but Qualtrics in Provo, Utah bootstrapped for a very long time and achieved pretty impressive success before accepting (not needing) external funding. Their CEO has gone quite a few articles and interviews about it, so it's a good use case to learn from.
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#28Braintree was bootstrapped until pretty late
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#2937Signals (Yes, yes, I know it's called Basecamp now) would be valued north of $1b. Though they did take an investment of $1m from Jeff Bezos at one point.
Why would it be valued north of $1b?
Re: Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
#3037Signals (Yes, yes, I know it's called Basecamp now) would be valued north of $1b. Though they did take an investment of $1m from Jeff Bezos at one point.
Out of curiosity, how do you arrive at this valuation?