With regards to this round's valuation amount, Kalanick told me, "We sold very valuable shares".
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Perhaps one day, but certainly not yet–our cumulative valuation amounts to barely one-fourth of that.
Subsequently applying this self-proclaimed "conservative" multiple of 7x to the estimated revenue of Linden Lab ($100 million for this year), the current target valuation amounts up to $700 million.
To help SaaS founders get a more accurate sense of valuation for their Series A funding, I've set out to create a funding estimator that lays out the major variables that affect valuation amounts.
Assuming revenues double again in 2011, a five billion-dollar valuation would amount to twenty times revenues on a trailing basis and ten times on a forward-looking basis, which seems more than a tad high.
Most major oil and gas companies have been forced to lower their valuations, collectively amounting to more than $50 billion, since oil prices swooned to around $50 a barrel in recent weeks from over $100 a barrel two years ago.
The New York Times first broke the story, but doesn't have details on valuation or amount invested.
Chris Dixon says it should all come down to price – valuation and amount, as he puts it, and all the other "standard" stuff.
Said Dixon: "My preference is to keep all terms as above and only negotiate over 2 things – valuation and amount raised".
