{"id":1397,"date":"2009-09-16T22:20:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T02:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2009-09-16T22:20:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T02:20:51","slug":"i-said-it-before-and-its-happening-twitter-closing-new-venture-round-at-1bn-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/i-said-it-before-and-its-happening-twitter-closing-new-venture-round-at-1bn-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"I said it before and it’s happening, Twitter closing new Venture round at $1bn valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"

I said it in March 4th 2009<\/a>, Twitter is a company with billion dollar capable business models behind it<\/strong> which is probably monetizing plenty already while making everybody believe they’re not even focusing on it. <\/p>\n

Today Techcrunch posts how Twitter is closing a New Venture Round at $1 billion valuation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I said it in March 4th 2009, Twitter is a company with billion dollar capable business models behind it which is probably monetizing plenty already while making everybody believe they’re not even focusing on it. Today Techcrunch posts how Twitter is closing a New Venture Round at $1 billion valuation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,39,59],"tags":[475,556,657,877,1462,1056,1064],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeklife","category-internet","category-opinions","tag-general-purpose","tag-internet-bussiness","tag-media","tag-search","tag-twitter","tag-valuation","tag-venture-round"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Unzf-mx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1157,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/why-i-believe-twitter-is-a-billion-dollar-company\/","url_meta":{"origin":1397,"position":0},"title":"Why I believe Twitter is a billion dollar company","author":"gubatron","date":"March 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night I read a post by Neal Wise called Twipocalypse Now: Warnings of a Twitter Bubble and this morning I feel the strong need to express a lot of the things I've experienced and learned from Twitter, and why I think this service, (which to me is the closest\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Geeklife"","block_context":{"text":"Geeklife","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/geeklife\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3204,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/why-buying-bitcoin-in-2013-is-a-no-brainer\/","url_meta":{"origin":1397,"position":1},"title":"Why buying Bitcoin in 2013 is a no brainer","author":"gubatron","date":"December 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I think the BitCoin market cap will grow AT LEAST ten fold in 2014 as only a mere 10% of the internet\u2019s b2c trade exponentially shifts into Bitcoin as the internet\u2019s de-facto currency thanks to it\u2019s convenience and optional low transaction fees. \u201cGlobal business-to-consumer e-commerce sales will pass the 1\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "BitCoin"","block_context":{"text":"BitCoin","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/category\/bitcoin-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":999,"url":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/amazons-black-friday-deals-voting-is-now-open\/","url_meta":{"origin":1397,"position":2},"title":"Amazon’s Black Friday deals voting is now open","author":"gubatron","date":"November 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Black friday is around the corner and it's become a shopping tradition at Amazon.com to make the craziest deals available in a democratic fashion. 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