PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

has rejected investor Bill Ackman’s offer to merge with his newly formed blank-check company to go public, preferring a traditional initial public offer (IPO). Now, the adversary is China , and the weapons of choice are tied to tech, data, deal-making and very large price tags. Airbnb Rejects Blank-Check Offer To Go Public. Airbnb Inc.

Banking 70

Banking Retail eCommerce Leverage 70

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

million unique visitors come to shop its wares each month — and make a move on the public markets. Revolve is pushing forward with an IPO and is looking for a $100 million valuation coming out of it. It’s been described as a “fancy price tag,” particularly for an eCommerce up-and-comer most people have never heard of.

Leverage 54

Leverage eCommerce Valuation Retail 54

PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

One of the biggest initial public offerings (IPOs) in Japan may herald a sea change across a number of fronts: in payments, how the Japanese population views budgeting and how marketplaces are evolving in that country. The obvious allure of a flea market app is one that ties into price, of course, and low ones.

Budgeting 46

Budgeting Retail Sales Marketing 46

PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

Now the company, recently off its initial public offering (IPO), reportedly is “ showing JUMP bikes, scooters and Lime scooters in the main map you see when you first open the Uber app in Atlanta, Ga. One of the biggest stories in retail continues to be Uber’s effort to move well beyond its core offering of automotive ridesharing.

Transportation 43

Transportation Retail Technology Marketing 43

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online clothing reseller Poshmark recently announcing that it will postpone its initial public offering (IPO) following a data breach that compromised an unknown number of consumers. Millennials and Gen Z are driving the growth of the secondhand market and eCommerce, generally.

Sales 40

Sales eCommerce Retail Technology 40

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. There’s been no IPO.” Of course, you know, we were involved with two of the major IPOs. And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. I’m not suggesting we should get rid of markets.

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Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 118

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

And while chat apps were a somewhat livelier field even as recently as 2010, as of the end of 2015 most were saying the market was for the most part shut down. billion price tag represents a hefty profit for Apax, which bought Epicor for $1 billion.
. The firm makes enterprise resource planning and retail management software.

Investments 40

Investments B2B Startups Accounting 40

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

Valuation 113

Valuation Profit and Loss Entertainment Investments 113

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The iTunes storefront for purchasing music, movies and TV may remain up and running within the major apps, but it will be less of a central focus as Apple redirects its attention to the booming subscription eCommerce market. It also came to the market at just the right time – about 10 months before the iPod hit the market in October 2001.

Problem Solving 49

Problem Solving Restructuring Communication Accounting 49

PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

As the world knows, Elon Musk sent a short missive – over Twitter, where all the missives are short – that he was considering a go-private deal, with an attendant price tag of about $72 billion, or at $420 a share, where the stock ended last Monday at around $356. The biggest splash may have been made with Tesla.

Valuation 40

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

The Stock Market. Pause for a minute and wonder what the markets may do for an encore. The markets in general are up more than 7 percent since the surprise election of Donald Trump as U.S. Dow 20,000 is finally a reality. But it’s been a long strange trip since the depths of 2009. billion in its most recent fundraising round.

Economics 40

Economics Valuation eCommerce Forecasting 40

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

His name is Robert Koenigsberger, and he has a fascinating career in emerging market, opportunistic and distressed debt investing. If you’re interested in what it’s like investing in emerging market debt, how that part of the investment firm has changed over the decades as the world itself has changed.

Restructuring 61

Restructuring Investments Marketing Banking 61

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

RITHOLTZ: What did grandma do that she had such market savvy back in the 90s? HAMBURGER: So, there’s no market downturn risk, or I should say very low market downturn risk. RITHOLTZ: Which raises the question, how big is that M&A market for RIAs? Is anyone ever going to have market share here?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 61

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 61

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

He was a pre-IPO investor in companies like Facebook and Twitter. LINDZON: So in 1980 — RITHOLTZ: He just put out a new show, so he’s off the market for a while. And luckily there was a bull market. Remember, the Netscape browser wasn’t until ’99 or … RITHOLTZ: No, the IPO was ’96.

Leverage 112

Leverage Investments Valuation Finance 112

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And if this sounds like two old friends just yammering about all sorts of market esoterica, well, that’s because it is. And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. Let Mr. Market do his thing and we’ll find out how we did when we get ready to retire.

Finance 108

Finance Investments Math Marketing 108

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

[ Gary Cohn ] 00:03:56 So two years earlier, and now we’re going back in time, the summer of 80, for those of you that remember the summer of 80, the Hunt brothers at that point were silver, were exactly, were trying to corner the gold and silver market. They were buying the, the Comex market. It was brand new.

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108