Very few companies have gotten to a $30 billion market cap in 10 years.
The main reason is everyone else sold or overreacted to the market and pivoted.
Yammer sold for $1B+ to Microsoft but could've easily been a 30B+ market cap company.
Slide had some issues and continue to react to the market trying different things - had they focused on a real problem, they might've created a Zynga type company.
The rest of them (Dave @ 500 Startups, Jeremy at Yelp, etc) are still at it and the verdict isn't in.
That being said, the fact that 1 company has an alumni with such success - and There's many I haven't mentioned - is only testament to the quality of the people.
P.S. What's the market cap for Tesla? Elon is just getting started - I think I'll be WAY bigger than LinkedIn.
Answered 11 years ago
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