Also, Jason, I think those slides are a little old (things change very fast those days), but still instructive about the NoSQL market and how it evolves.
https://speakerdeck.com/abchaudhri/considerations-for-using-nosql-technology-on-your-next-it-project-1 <https://speakerdeck.com/abchaudhri/considerations-for-using-nosql-technology-on-your-next-it-project-1> Enjoy Dana > On Jun 22, 2015, at 9:25 AM, daniela florescu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jason, > > I have their financial analysis slides, but honestly I am not sure if I am > supposed to make them public. > (I guess you just have to wait until THEY make them public). > > About the valuation, I have no idea. > > Not everybody likes to have a 10X valuation, which is clearly a sign of tech > bubble over-evaluation. > (and actually such over-evaluations can be very harmful to companies later on > if things don’t turn up as expected) > > But I do not know exactly the story with their latest evaluation. > > Best > Dana > > > > > >> On Jun 22, 2015, at 3:34 AM, Jason Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> DatasTax after 3 yearsof existence is at more then 300M revenue (and less >>> investment from VCs). >> >> I was curious about this figure. Did DataStax really make it close to $300m >> in revenue? >> >> http://www.datanami.com/2014/09/04/datastax-nabs-106-million-sets-sites-international-expansion/ >> >> -- >> During that period, it more than doubled the number of employees to more >> than 350, and it increased its annual revenue run rate by more than 125 >> percent. “The valuation of the company is over $830 million, which is more >> than double the valuation of the company 12 months ago,” Pfeil said. The >> privately held company doesn’t share revenue figures. >> -- >> >> If the company's valuation is $830m and it grew by 125% in the year before, >> then we can deduce revenue is nowhere close to $300m/yr. It wouldn't even >> be above $100m/yr. >> >> They raised $190m in VC so far. >> >> -jh- >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] >> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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