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Acquired’s Ben Gilbert & David Rosenthal on private markets, ZIRP impact, future of Amazon | E1706

This Week in Startups

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The Rise of Early Stage Venture Capital

The median pre-seed valuation that I was seeing before was like 10ish million and there's some people that are raising the 18 cap YC safe type thing. The public market's paying seven, eight, nine x for SAS multiples right now in some of the best companies. So you know, you got to give private companies a little bit of a better situation than that because they're growing faster.

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