Overview
This book examines the valuation of internet-enabled businesses across their industry life cycles, demonstrating the shifts in valuation multiples and drivers over time, providing a comprehensive framework to better understand and optimize business valuations. Internet Evolution as Natural Experiment: The internet's rise - from innovation to necessity, driven by 5G and AI - offers a unique lens on valuation methodologies across industry life cycles. Methodological Approach: Unprecedented quantitative and qualitative research analyzing 1,767 companies globally across 21 industries and 15 years, covering 120 multiples, 216 drivers, and 100 million data points. Valuation Framework: It proposes a groundbreaking framework linking valuation multiples and drivers to industry life cycles, illustrating the shift from revenue- to profitability-based multiples and from growth-centric to growth-and-profitability drivers as companies mature. Practical Implications: It concludes with recommendations for stakeholders on monitoring valuation multiples and drivers for value-maximizing strategies across virtually all mature and emerging technologies.
- | Author: Adelin Trusculescu
- | Publisher: Springer Gabler
- | Publication Date: Aug 30, 2025
- | Number of Pages: 316 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 3658491256
- | ISBN-13: 9783658491253