{"id":16652,"date":"2025-08-26T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1414814"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:00:45","slug":"the-hot-crazy-matrix-explains-why-investors-get-tech-deals-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=16652","title":{"rendered":"The Hot Crazy Matrix explains why investors get tech deals wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2025%2F08%2FUntitled-design-6.jpg&#038;signature=4368b0660e2bf773c6c2c12894abc5c3\" width=\"796\" height=\"417\"><br \/>Private equity deals hit an all-time high in 2021, peaking at a total value of more than $1tn, with an average deal size exceeding $1bn for the first time. Founders were media darlings, valuations soared, and investors raced to get a piece of the action.\u00a0\u00a0 By 2023, many of those same companies \u2014 such as Klarna and Stripe \u2014 had lost billions in value. Klarna\u2019s valuation plummeted by 85% from its 2021 peak of $45.6bn to $6.7bn in 2022. Stripe also fell dramatically, from $95bn in 2021 to $50bn in 2023.\u00a0\u00a0 Fast forward to today, and even more tech companies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/hot-crazy-matrix-investors-tech-startups?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/hot-crazy-matrix-investors-tech-startups\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity deals hit an all-time high in 2021, peaking at a total value of more than $1tn, with an average deal size exceeding $1bn for the first time. Founders were media&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}