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Re:Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in... by hkmurakami on Thursday March 09, 2017 @05:45PM (#13834539)
Prime example is Cargill. $100B in revenues, privately held.

https://www.cargill.com/about/financial/credit-rating-inform...

Re:Airbnb raises $1B at $31B valuation, became profitable in... by elastic_church on Thursday March 09, 2017 @06:02PM (#13834657)
If any of these tech companies decided to just go with 6 months of positive revenues, they could issue bonds in Europe representing waaay cheaper capital than VCs and not have to worry about it for the next two decades.