Venerable retailer J.C. Penney opened its doors more than a century ago and boasts annual revenues of nearly $13 billion from its 1,100 stores. Yet a three-year-old website with an untested business model and little discernible revenue is closing in on the department store chain's $3 billion market cap: Pinterest.
The online scrapbooking site recently raised $200 million in venture capital funds to bring its implied valuation to $2.5 billion, according to a February 20 story in The Wall Street Journal. Founded by three young entrepreneurs in March 2010, the tech start-up has 48 million users as of December 2012, up from nine million in the prior year, the article noted.
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