# Prof. Aswath Damodaran on the valuation of tech companies

1 Faculty News November 11, 2014 ![Mashable Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_042582.jpg?itok=3Q5K3Qua)>

Excerpt from [Mashable](http://mashable.com/2014/11/11/year-of-incredibly-large-numbers/) -- "'It really becomes a question of what are you pricing it against,' [Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran) told Mashable in an interview. Snapchat may not be worth $10 billion to investors by itself, but if the market already values Twitter at $30 billion-$40 billion, then the Snapchat valuation may make more sense. 'Twitter, after all, is not that far ahead of Snapchat,' he argues."

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