[NEWS] Lyft’s IPO, Casper the friendly unicorn and WeWork’s staggering losses – Loganspace

Hi there and welcome encourage to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, the save we unpack the numbers in the encourage of the headlines.

This week we had the pudgy gang around, withConnie Loizosin the studio withKate Clarkand our visitorBarrett Cohnfrom Scenic Advisement.Alexused to be on the line from Providence.

Lucky for us, records ofLyft’sIPO pricing brokeappropriate sooner than we hit file. That shook issues up a bit, however it absolutely used to be great better to luxuriate in it spoil as we were getting our notes collectively in wish to after we kicked off. Let’s start up there.

Lyft isgoing out at $72 per share, the head-slay of its boosted vary. The companies fully diluted $24 billion valuation (give or pick) shall be supported by around $2.4 billion in new capital, giving Lyft unique runway to continue its costly growth strategy.

Next, we grew to change into to podcast substitute stalwart Casper. Be anxious no longer podcast fans, the D2C mattress companyhas $100 million more in the monetary institution, a unique $1.1 billion valuation andIPO plans on the horizon. That’s a lovely parcel of information, that manner it’ll restful be a pudgy-price forward for the newly minted unicorn.

We also say about newly leaked Casper financials. The company, esteem most unicorns, is restful losing cash however its swelling annual revenues sign a successful future.

From unicorn to unicorn to unicorn, we moved on to WeWork. WeWork, now known by its stage nameThe We Company,reported its2018 monetary performancethis week and the outcomes were astonishing, twice. Unbelievable first with regards to growth, with income spiking from $886 million in 2017 to $1.8 billion in 2018. And astonishing again with regards to price, as WeWork’s win loss shot from $933 million in 2017 to $1.9 billion in 2018.

We had a chat about precisely what the company is, with our visitor arguing that WeWork isn’t a tech company in any admire, it’s an real estate commercial. We aren’t certain what the future holds for WeWork however we’re tickled to luxuriate in a front-row seat to the Adam Neaumann sign.

Within the slay, investors are once again in effort. This time the venture neighborhood istaking stripesfor landing in the college admissions cheating scandal. As if we restful belief this country used to be a meritocracy.

Regardless, your chums at Equity are tickled to see you. And we’ll be encourage sooner than you miss us!

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