# Professor Aswath Damodaran's valuation of Uber is cited

1 Faculty News October 26, 2015 ![Los Angeles Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032838.jpg?itok=d4eVwIbD)>

Excerpt from the [Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-could-uber-be-worth-70-billion-20151026-column.html) -- "'If history is any guide, tech geeks are just as capable of greed and irrational exuberance as bankers are.' \[[Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran)\] valued Uber then at around $6 billion, but he has since brought his number up."

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