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Stripe Is Now a $20B Company

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563 points jonknee | 2 comments | 26 Sep 18 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source
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haaen ◴[26 Sep 18 19:17 UTC] No.18079316[source]▶
Stripe is the second most valuable YC company. Total valuation of all companies that YC funded (more than 1,900) now exceeds 100 billon dollars.

Airbnb has a private valuation of 31 billion. Stripe has a private valuation of 20 billion. Dropbox has a public valuation (DBX) of 11 billion.

So the two most valuable companies account for about half the total value of all the YC companies. This is what a power law looks like!

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1. 0bfus ◴[26 Sep 18 21:59 UTC] No.18080618[source]▶
More specifically this is probably closer to a Zipfian distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
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2. aidenn0 ◴[27 Sep 18 03:51 UTC] No.18082024[source]▶
I would guess it's closer to a yule-simon distribution, as that is the limiting distribution of a particular form of preferential attachment that has many similarities with how equity is assigned.