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by inputcoffee 2560 days ago
These declarations of valuation should be followed by a little note explaining what multiple of earnings (or, failing that, sales) this represents, and how fast it is growing.

Is that high? Low? about right?

Well, it depends if Slack made $100 million in sales and is flat, or if it did $2B in sales and is doubling every year.

(I assume that it doesn't have earnings because its still growing and plowing all that money back into the business)