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Exactly. What makes it worse is that Tumblr has lots of soft core porn and other unsavory content which brand advertisers don't want to touch with a 10 foot pole.

Plus, the P/S of 10x looks pulled out of ye' olde arse. Google's trailing P/S is 5.6x and Yahoo's is similar. AOL is 1.31x. What media company that might be a "comp" trades for 10x.

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HuffPo, and I said it was steep not what people should expect to get.

Huffington Post, a media company, was purchased by AOL for $315M @ $30M rev. That's 10x. Stop trolling.

Not a very professional way to respond, Danielle. Especially being the author of the article in question. Stop accusing people as trolls just because you disagree with them.

You could goto Bloomberg.com or Yahoo Finance and get real P/S ratios but you used the uncontested paragon of financial data - HuffPo.

And you said it's high but still used it in your headline cuz you thought would have a higher chance of getting to the top of HN.

I guess pursuit of provocative > properly researched.

Will you both please stop?

Did the flame war algo catch this one? If so, well done.

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