Tech: Dropbox, Hot Stock?

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4.6 • 854 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

After 11 years of being a private company, unicorn DropBox has decided to go public. We go through the cloud company’s prospectus and see what we like and don’t like about the business ahead of the upcoming IPO.

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0:21.3	Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dies into a different sector of the stock market every day.
0:26.0	It's Friday, March 2nd, and we're doing a deep dive on Dropbox's S1.
0:31.0	I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I'm joined on Skype by senior tech specialist
0:34.0	Evan New. Evan to borrow a phrase from Chris Hill, the news fairy has been pretty good
0:39.9	to us in tech over the past week. Yeah, I mean, this day has been a long time coming for Dropbox.
0:46.0	Yeah, we got news last Friday that Dropbox's filing was going to become public,
0:52.0	and we also got news earlier this week that
0:54.1	Spotify is going public so two huge unicorns that a lot of people have
0:59.2	been wondering you know when's the day going to come where I'm going to be able to
1:01.1	get my hands on some of these shares.
1:03.6	We still have to wait for that, but we can at least start talking about the business and
1:06.2	get a good sense of what's going on with these companies.
1:08.7	We're going to touch on Spotify next week, next Friday show.
1:12.1	We're going to talk about Dropbox today for those that might be
1:15.0	unfamiliar with the business Evan you want to do a little rundown on what Dropbox
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