How To Analyze An IPO

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🗓️ 25 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Some of Silicon Valley's biggest unicorns like Uber and Slack are expected to go public this year. But when companies finally pull the trigger and launch their IPOs, what factors should you keep in mind before investing? On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we speak with Rett Wallace of Triton.ai about how his company analyzes IPOs, and why some companies are going public later in their lives.

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1:16.8	My colleague and co-host Tracy Elway is out this week so not going to be a long introduction but one of the big things that's going to
1:26.0	happen at least expected to happen in markets in 2019 is the flotation of some pretty big highly anticipated I POs some of those Silicon
1:36.8	Valley unicorns that people have been talking about forever Uber, Lyft, Slack, all of them, plus more likely to go public this year after a long wait.
1:48.8	Of course, many of them are huge and they're going public at a stage in life that is much later than many of the big
1:55.8	tech companies that are currently public when they decide to go public or when they decide to do
2:00.7	their IPO. So I want to talk more about the IPO market on
2:05.0	today's episode and to discuss this I have with me Rhett Wallace. He is the
2:09.5	founder and CEO of Troyton AI, a company that analyzes IPOs through various proprietary measures.
2:17.8	And we are going to talk about the evolution of the IPO market as well as how to analyze an IPO because theoretically there might be people
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