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This is revenue, definitely AFTER. A year ago, they had more than $2 billion dollars in bookings so $250 million is absolutely their net billings.


If the WSJ is correct and their revenue is $250m, this values the company (admittedly growing like crazy) at 40x sales. Seems very rich to me.


Twitter had something like $300M revenues[0] at it's IPO and, based on the opening share price, was valued at $14B[1]. That's 46x.

Still seems crazy high, but seemingly not out of line with other recent tech valuation multipliers. There are some other insights in these comments that seek to better explain the valuation.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2013/10/twitter-files-for-ipo-2/ [1] http://mashable.com/2014/04/16/weibo-ipo/


That's pretty normal for high-growth companies.


40x 2013 Revenue. Probably 20x 2014 revenue.




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