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		curiousdannii on Nov 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A billion dollar software tech company is founded ... Would love to see this paired with a similar list showing operating profit. Or to put it another way, how many billion dollar software companies are there whose value hasn't been created substantially by the markets alone?

netcan on Nov 12, 2012 [–]

Think of this as a list of companies that investors or acquirers are/were willing to pay $1b+ for.

If you want companies that have justified their valuation based on past profits, you will need to go to older dates.

eg 1998: OpenTable, Google, Rackspace, PayPal.

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