Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Friday, March 29th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, The Lift IPO.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Lift officially became the first of this crop of tech unicorns to IPO today.

And at the time of this writing it looks like it was a success.

Shares of Lift opened up more than 21%, which means the company is valued at around $25 billion and

lift itself raised $2.3 billion.

Quoting CNBC, Lift said Thursday it sold 32.5 million shares more than previously expected

at $72 a piece. That's at the high end of the stated range, which was already boosted from an initial range of 62 to

68 dollars that means the company raised about 2.3 billion from the listing

the stock held at around 87 dollars in its first few minutes of trading before falling to around $83 per share, something

of a modest IPO for such a giant tech company.

Appetite for the stock was strong though, with more than 6 million shares traded at the open.

More than 19 million shares had been traded as of noon in New York about 15 minutes after the

debut, end quote.

I don't know that I agree with that tepid assessment entirely

especially given that lift has always been in Uber's shadow the fact that they were

able to come to market first and attract enough investor interest to essentially be oversubscribed and sell more shares at a higher price than anticipated is a win by some measures certainly

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