CG: Blue Apron Becomes the Latest Unicorn to Pursue an IPO
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In its last private funding round, Blue Apron reached a valuation of over $2 billion. Now, the company has its sights set on the public market, and we are digging into the IPO filing to break down the financials and business model of meal kit delivery for investors.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Vincent Chen and it is Tuesday, June 6th. |
| 0:11.0 | Super excited to talk about a hot new IPO that was filed last week. |
| 0:14.8 | It's not too often that we get unicorns in the consumer and retail space going |
| 0:19.1 | public. |
| 0:20.1 | Unicorn, of course, being the amusing title given to private startups with valuations of $1 billion |
| 0:25.3 | or more. |
| 0:26.3 | Dylan over in the tech world usually gets to claim these unicorn IPOs, but not today, thanks |
| 0:30.2 | to Blue Apron. |
| 0:31.8 | So joining me via Skype to share his thoughts on the company |
| 0:34.6 | is Senior Fool.com contributor Osset Sharma. |
| 0:37.4 | Osset, thank you for joining us. You ever subscribe to one of these meal |
| 0:40.9 | delivery services before? |
| 0:43.2 | I haven't since. |
| 0:45.0 | Consider myself something of a foodie, so I have my hands full with going and getting my |
| 0:50.8 | own ingredients and constantly experimenting but I'm very |
| 0:54.3 | interested in the model you know I followed Blue Apron and some of its competitors |
| 0:59.1 | so quite familiar with the service and excited to talk about it today. |
| 1:03.8 | How about yourself? |
| 1:04.7 | Have you tried one of these services yet? |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah, I've tried a few of them. |
| 1:08.6 | I generally really like the clear, clear instructions |
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