Headline is incorrect. The actual value is $2.6MM.

limelight · on March 22, 2014

That's referenced in the article itself. The phrasing was intentional, to fulfill Betteridge's law of headlines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

pbreit · on March 23, 2014

It's not normal use of the phrasing but I think the author's meaning is: "Is NPM worth [a] $2.6m [investment]?"

The author seems to think some VCs make investments with limited expectation for a return which I think is mostly wrong (I can easily see GitHub being acquired or IPOing).

joshu · on March 23, 2014

No. The investment was $2.6MM.