They were already pushing for a really ambitious valuation so I can't see how that looks attractive to any smart investor and we have no reason to believe the Asian market investors are any less smart than those in the UK," the Manchester United Supporters Trust chief executive, Duncan Drasdo, said.
Several sources have told us Snapchat co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy are shooting for an even more ambitious valuation near $1 billion.
If the startup wasn't trying to triple an already ambitious valuation, they could proceed prudently, reject investments that don't sufficiently return and harden their best thesis into a model that generates high-confidence results.
Unicorns are under scrutiny essentially because they embody over-ambitious valuations.
That would be quite a jump from its most recent $12 billion valuation and certainly not guaranteed given that others from China, including Xiaomi, has fallen short of ambitious IPO valuation targets.
Ivor Pether, a fund manager at Royal London Asset Management, warned that "vendors are being overly ambitious" and asking for valuations that are too high.
Those targets were very ambitious, but that Pinterest's valuation hasn't fallen south is also a sign that investors aren't entirely displeased with the company's performance.
In light of ambitious goals in many cities to increase tree cover, ongoing advances in valuation methods need to provide a more comprehensive accounting of benefits and costs, and to better integrate economic assessment into the decision-making process.
The Offshore Valuation study sets out three scenarios for the next 40 years, with the most ambitious suggesting that an average of 13.1 gigawatts of wind, wave or tidal energy could be installed each year until 2050.
It's an ambitious plan that has drawn big bucks from investors, including $500 million from General Motors that brought the company's valuation to $5.5 billion.
