TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. IMVU has raised more than $77 million from five rounds since it was co-founded by “The Lean Startup” author Eric Ries back in 2004. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Some might argue that acquisitions are more dominant today because of the anti-competitive motivations of current tech incumbents. In fact, today we are witnessing fewer acquisitions relative to IPOs than in years past, as the average acquisition-to-IPO ratio since 2004 is approximately 15:1.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

From 2004 to 2014, the average payments for coinsurance rose 107% from $117 to $242. Coninsurance plans require the patient to pay a percentage (usually 10-30%) of the healthcare costs up to the deductible limit. Also like high deductibles, coinsurance usage in on the rise.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In 2004, six years later fewer than 1000 of these shareholders had traded their shares for cash. If the SEC permits AirBnB and other network-effect companies to reward usage with shares, the SEC may dull the competitive threat from blockchain - especially where there’s an incumbent. The company honored its commitments anyway.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 28, 2016

The second largest, Jasper, is an internet of things software company founded in 2004, which Cisco acquired for $1.2B. Large incumbent technology companies including Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft are buying large public companies with dominant market share to bolster their current businesses and expand to new markets.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Unity, founded in 2004, took nearly 5 years of bootstrapping to launch the engine, cultivate a cult following of Mac hobbyist developers, raise venture funding and ascend the curve of relevancy such that studios with real budgets were willing to bet their projects on Unity.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004.

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