[iambateman]

Despite the replies, I thought this was a good take.

$5,000,000,000 is a truly unimaginable amount in both senses of the word unimaginable. I couldn’t tell the difference between a $5B and $7B company, for example.

And it’s especially hard to tell for a service which is, somewhat by nature, invisible.

But my smart, non-programmer friends love Zapier and I imagine many of their customer relationships will be multi-decade. There really are so many odd businesses in the world.

[beachy]

I think of a billion as (very roughly) half of a cruise liner or half of a casino in the strip in Vegas.

Not sure how accurate that is but at $5b, I imagine zapier as a cruise ship tied up alongside a glittering glass casino.