Hello and welcome again to Equity, TechCrunch’s enterprise capital-focused podcast, the place we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
Kate and Alex are again (once more), bringing you the most recent on the IPO entrance. As Friday is coming to a detailed, we’ll hold this submit quick to depart loads of room so that you can dig into the audio. Welcome to the weekend.
Up first we dug into Uber’s newest S-1 submitting. This time, the corporate set a value vary for itself (TechCrunch’s protection right here), valuing itself at $84 billion and likewise detailing estimates of its first-quarter outcomes (Crunchbase News’s notes right here).
We suspect Uber will finally value a high that vary. Time will inform.
And then we turned to Slack, who’s direct itemizing will assist set the historic tone for the unicorn period; screw your cash, Slack says, we have now our personal. Well perhaps not, however the firm has spectacular development, killer margins, and, to our shock, bigger GAAP deficits than we anticipated. The firm’s submitting was fascinating.
But fear not, we are able to work out learn how to worth Slack. It’s Uber that left us scratching our heads. Expect subsequent week to be one other blizzard of reports and numbers.
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