Re:Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
by vecter on Thursday July 24, 2014 @07:38PM
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Is 37Signals worth $1B?
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Re:Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
by shreve on Thursday July 24, 2014 @08:09PM
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Actually, they're valued at $100B.
http://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-v...
Re:Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
by catshirt on Thursday July 24, 2014 @11:14PM
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i'm not typically a fan of the 37signals blog posts which come off to me as arrogant. this one makes me laugh though; it does a really effective job of poking fun at the broken parts of the VC model.
Re:Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
by brianfitz on Friday July 25, 2014 @08:57AM
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That article was intended to be a joke. 37signals (now Basecamp) is private and doesn't publicly announce revenue or profits -- though Jason has acknowledged both are in the millions.
Re:Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
by catshirt on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:15AM
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it's satirical but is it a joke? valuation is not a pure function of revenue and profit. unless i am missing something this valuation is as real as Twitter's or Facebook's. that's the joke.