Down Round Internet IPO Metrics 
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2011
Early-stage investors in technology startups are only looking for growth-oriented companies that can achieve an “exit&# someday – either via selling your company to a larger company or via an IPO. Another firm we saw tried to raise $15 million at a $60 million pre-money with similar metrics. Here’s the problem.
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 20, 2016
The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks.
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Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood. If we’re making a consumer internet company, it should be good for people consuming it. So we’re going to do debt.
Reid Hoffman
JUNE 8, 2021
Airbnb was preparing for an IPO right when the pandemic hit, and everything changed in a matter of days. Airbnb got scrutiny before we were big, because Airbnb meant the internet moving into your neighborhood. If we’re making a consumer internet company, it should be good for people consuming it. So we’re going to do debt.
Scalable Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets. Stick a fork in it.
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