Zulily was founded in 2010 and now its worth 15B (public)
Whatsapp was founded in 2009 and was sold for 16B+ 4 yrs later.
Back in 05-06 we were immensely surprised when we saw youtube, sold 1.5yrs after it was founded for 1.5B or skype that was sold for $8B 2yrs after its founding.
Today the zulily-like companies don't even make the news (the company was close to 10B already from its IPO... almost a year ago.
We have at least two companies that grew to 100B in less than 10yrs (Google,FB).
We should expect shortly to see 10B Market Caps in less than 2 yrs, 100B in less than 5yrs and 1T (the actual singularity prediction in less than 20yrs - and google will probably be that one hitting that mark (ie 1T before it turns 20 on 9/2018).
One monkey wrench to this could be that the public stockmarket may not be able to be the place where one can find and measure the majority of big companies..
Whatsapp was founded in 2009 and was sold for 16B+ 4 yrs later.
Back in 05-06 we were immensely surprised when we saw youtube, sold 1.5yrs after it was founded for 1.5B or skype that was sold for $8B 2yrs after its founding.
Today the zulily-like companies don't even make the news (the company was close to 10B already from its IPO... almost a year ago.
We have at least two companies that grew to 100B in less than 10yrs (Google,FB).
We should expect shortly to see 10B Market Caps in less than 2 yrs, 100B in less than 5yrs and 1T (the actual singularity prediction in less than 20yrs - and google will probably be that one hitting that mark (ie 1T before it turns 20 on 9/2018).
One monkey wrench to this could be that the public stockmarket may not be able to be the place where one can find and measure the majority of big companies..
Airbnb hits 10B at 5yrs http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/18/airbnb-has-closed-its-500m-round-of-funding-at-a-10b-valuation-led-by-tpg/?ncid=rss
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