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This Week in Startups

E1142: Emergency Pod! Jason breaks down & ranks his top 4 IPO candidates: Airbnb, Affirm, Robinhood & Roblox!

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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0:00.0

It's an emergency podcast everybody. It's an emergency podcast.

0:06.7

I P. O. Insanity has hit Silicon Valley with a firm, Roblocks, AirB&B, all filing to IPO within four days of each other.

0:17.8

And yum yum for J-Cal, Robin Hood, which I was an angel investor in, is reportedly on the way. I don't have any inside information.

0:25.4

On today's emergency pod, we're going to break down and rank. We're going to rank them.

0:30.1

We're going to rank each of these companies by which one will appreciate the most in the next 10 years

0:36.0

So get ready to place your bets everybody Max Levchin's a firm had 509 million dollars in revenue in 2020.

0:43.6

AirB&B filed on November 16th, they had Q3 revenue of 1.3 billion,

0:49.5

so you times that by 4.

0:51.3

You're at about a $5 billion dollar run rate and Roblox filed on

0:54.7

November 19th they had 242 million in Q3 revenue it times up by four you're at

1:00.9

about a billion dollar run rate and oh yum yum

1:04.4

Robin Hood has not yet filed but folks are speculating that they're closing in on a

1:09.3

billion in yearly revenue with 15 million users. It's an emergency podcast. Brace for

1:17.2

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