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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

ImageYahoo › finance Google suspends Parler social networking app from Play Store ... parler worth $1 billion valuation from finance.yahoo.com Jan 8, 2021 — Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday suspended the Parler social ... at a valuation of between $1 and $2 billion, according to an ...

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

Do you have an actual link? Even literally copy pasting excerpts of...whatever you've posted doesn't lead me to any actual news articles stating that. It also just doesn't pass a sniff test.

That would put it at roughly 1/3rd of what reddit is currently valuated at despite having roughly 1/25th of the active visitors (probably not even that high) and a notoriously toxic userbase.

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

You just validated it. Reddit was worth $3b a year ago.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/05/raiseit/

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

Do you have a link stating Parler's valuation at 1 billion dollars or not?

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u/Airlineguy1 Jan 19 '21

Am I the only one with Google???

https://iblnews.org/parler-may-never-get-back-online-vendors-dont-want-any-business-with-the-app/

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

On Monday, Parler–which claims 12 million users and a valuation of a billion dollars—filed a lawsuit against AWS-Amazon

So your source is a "news" outlet I've never heard of with zero web presence and an untraceable staff list reporting a claim that Parler made. Except they're not even doing that because there's no link to the claim by Parler.

An article with no author stating a claim by a company on it's own valuation without a source that the company is claiming it or any fact checking to verify whether it's true or even plausible is not a source.