Tech: A Profitable Unicorn?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Soon-to-be-public Zoom is a Unicorn among Unicorns -- the company grew its top line over 100% last year and it managed to post a profit. We run through the company prospectus and see whether it is worth investing in ahead up its public debut:
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | It is Friday, April 12th. |
| 0:09.0 | We're talking about a unicorn that is actually profitable. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I've got |
| 0:13.8 | fool.com's Brian Feroldi on Skype. Brian what's up? Dylan awesome to be back |
| 0:19.1 | and talking about another new IPO. We've been pretty spoiled so far in 2019. I think it's only going to continue. |
| 0:25.4 | You know, we talked about Pinterest little ways back. We're talking about Zoom, another |
| 0:29.2 | upcoming tech IPO, and that's just the beginning. 2019's gonna be very good for us. |
| 0:33.4 | The Uber Prospectus just came out. |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah, I was just reading through the Uber Prospectus |
| 0:37.2 | right before the show, so tons to talk about. |
| 0:39.6 | That'll be a future episode, Brian. |
| 0:41.6 | Let's talk Zoom today. this is one that fools know very |
| 0:45.1 | well we use Zoom here at HQ a lot of folks though probably haven't heard the |
| 0:49.7 | name before yeah so Zoom is a leader in the video communication, so anybody that is |
| 0:56.6 | familiar with just video chatting, Zoom is a competitor in that space. |
| 1:01.8 | And I got to be honest, when I first heard about Zoom, |
| 1:05.3 | I didn't even give it a second thought |
| 1:07.2 | because I thought that the video market was already |
| 1:09.7 | incredibly saturated, so I didn't understand |
| 1:12.0 | how any company could create an edge in this market. |
| 1:15.0 | But the more I dug into the details behind Zoom, the more I realize that I do think they actually |
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