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Why billion-dollar startups can value themselves

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Reaching a billion-dollar valuation is incredibly easy when your only appraisers are the people who gave you the capital in the first place. Private startup valuations are notoriously inflated because they are determined by small groups of venture capitalists who have a vested interest in making their portfolio look like a massive success.

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