You can never find out a private company's revenues, so the best we can do is to go by approximations like how frequently we hear about them, later funding rounds, etc.
Interesting. In Sweden the high level information about a private company is publicly available. Several websites like allabolag.se lives from aggregating this data and reselling it.
Is there nothing more to it than revenues? [that's not intended to be snarky and rhetorical however it sounds in your head!] Like do you think "Wow, sorry we missed them, they're making awesome stuff" or is it primarily financial.
This kinda fits in with the Kickstarter discussion, scale is entirely different of course.
I guess in short is business more about making money or about creating value.
