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Re:Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding by vmception on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:28PM (#26415746)
The article says “hamster wheel”, not that they didn’t take it. The headline here adds ambiguity that wasnt written
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Re:Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding by dang on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:07PM (#26417002)
OK, we've disambiguated that in the title above. (Submitted title was "Zapier reached a $5B valuation without VC funding".)
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Re:Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding by imacoder on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @03:52PM (#26416072)
If there is a valuation, then there was funding or there will be funding.

Looks like funding came from YC, so yeah, they were funded.

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Re:Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding by jeff18 on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @04:24PM (#26416453)
Not necessarily! Shares trade all the time without funding the company. The valuation depends on what people pay for those shares.
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