Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). conference happened at the end of 2004). LinkedIn’s product had only been live for a couple months, we only had tens of thousands of registered users, and wouldn’t start generating revenue for more than a year after this point. It was a $4.7M link] leehower.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space.

Entrepreneur 111

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion, which at the time seemed laughably high and now seems prescient.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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