Both Sides of the Table

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

Huge funding increases lead to massive wage inflation, rent inflation and thus higher burn rates. Just as with the late 90s there is no new “business model” that defies the laws of gravity. Companies are valued based on the expectation of future profits. A reversion to the mean should be expected.

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