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Depends on how you value the company. Twitter is very overvalued if you look at accounting & finances more than influence and popularity and hype.

Consider revenue and income (losses) and Twitter doesn't look good at all, they look horrible. They don't have that many employees, but they must be very very highly compensated and concentrated in very high cost areas. Otherwise the company is wasting serious money somewhere else, because to lose money on $5B/yr revenue with 7500 employees year after year in a business that's as high margin as pure software is incredibly terrible performance.



The finance folks have this term: "Intangible Assets", it affects the valuation big time.




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