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ardi60 ( ardi60@reddthat.com )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO

www.bloomberg.com

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Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO

www.bloomberg.com

ardi60 ( ardi60@reddthat.com )  to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago
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Reddit Inc. is weighing feedback from early meetings with potential investors in its initial public offering that it should consider a valuation of at least $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, even as it is estimated below that figure in the volatile market for shares of private companies.
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    The markets are insane. There is no way Reddit is worth 5 billion.

    • ares35 ( ares35@kbin.social ) 
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      watch the reddit ipo be a catalyst for a stock market crash.

      • Neuromancer ( wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ) 
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        To me it’s a sign of how out of whack the stock market is right now. Lemmy created the Reddit experience at a fraction of the cost. Yet Reddit spends millions a year doing it.

      • RandomStickman ( RandomStickman@kbin.social ) 
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        Imagine reddit causing The Great Depression 2.

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      How much was WeWork valued at without turning a profit?

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        Some huge validation. It’s not profitability. It’s does it make sense. Many companies forgo profit for growth. That’s common. Wework never made sense at its valuation to me.

        Same with Resdit. What is reddits path to profitability ? What value does it create? With their admins and mods being dipshits. It’s a liability to a company and not an asset. I would never buy from a company advertising on Reddit.

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      It’s not that much for a tech company with such a big user base

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        It has no profit, no path to profit and most the users are bots. If advertisers paid attention, they’d realize it’s with next to nothing

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