"Entrepreneurs here are driven by revenue, that's the mentality, so there may be less of a total valuation but the companies are successful at smaller valuations".
Per the New York Times, Musk's compensation will start at zero, and will increase based on incremental targets beginning at a $100 billion market value threshold, with boosts coming at every $50 billion increment after that, going all the way up to a total valuation of $650 billion for Tesla.
The next morning Pawlowskis phone rang, and Koogle laid out the offer: $25 million for 23% of E-Loans outstanding shares — a total valuation of $110 million, 18% lower than in the Intuit offer.
The sale figure is a total valuation of the franchise, which includes relocation fees.
Surprisingly, the result of the impact of pipeline valuation as a percent of total valuation on financial performance was inconsistent with our expectations (H3).
Back in June, Graham told me that the top 10 companies accounted for $8.6 billion of its $11.6 billion total valuation.
After all, saying that the top 10 now accounted for $10 billion of the $13.6 billion total valuation — and note, YC did not say this, but if it did — that would mean that somebody just got a big boost in funding, or perhaps saw shares revalued through a secondary sale.
Each of these states has a pre-determined probability of success, and the total valuation for the project is the sum of the products of each payout and their probabilities.
Currently the total valuation for the 511 startups is $11.5 billion, as Graham writes on Hacker News.
