{"id":19640,"date":"2019-04-08T07:38:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=19640"},"modified":"2023-06-07T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T00:36:17","slug":"2019-red-hot-ipo-year-for-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/08\/2019-red-hot-ipo-year-for-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"2019, Red Hot IPO Year for Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are nearly a dozen tech Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) planned for 2019, the tech companies are scurrying to generate immense wealth before the expected 2020 recession. While many industries are seeing financial problems. pre-IPO tech companies are being heavily valued by Wall Street traders and financial analysts. <\/span>Most of these companies are Collaborative Economy companies, an industry I covered with great detail<\/a> over the last half decade. <\/span>These online marketplaces enable the buying and selling of assets (they don’t own) between individuals. Since they don’t own most of the assets, they have great upside –and little downside. These tech companies are the darlings in business, as they prepare for a massive set of IPOs that could result in over $250 Billion in material wealth as their shares are released to the open market. Here’s a quick breakdown of their anticipated valuation of this year’s launches: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Silicon Valley Tech Companies 2019 Expected IPOs<\/strong><\/center>

<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company<\/b><\/td>\nIndustry<\/b><\/td>\nExpected IPO Valuation (Billions $)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lyft (March IPO)<\/span><\/td>\nCollaborative Economy<\/span><\/td>\n21<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Uber<\/span><\/td>\nCollaborative Economy<\/span><\/td>\n120<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Airbnb<\/span><\/td>\nCollaborative Economy<\/span><\/td>\n31<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Palantir<\/span><\/td>\nData Analytics\/AI<\/span><\/td>\n41<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pinterest<\/span><\/td>\nSocial<\/span><\/td>\n12.3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Slack<\/span><\/td>\nEnterprise Collaboration<\/span><\/td>\n10<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Postmates<\/span><\/td>\nCollaborative Economy<\/span><\/td>\n1.2<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PoshMark<\/span><\/td>\nCollaborative Economy<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robinhood<\/span><\/td>\nFinancial Services<\/span><\/td>\n5.6<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Zoom<\/span><\/td>\nCommunications<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PagerDuty<\/span><\/td>\nCloud Computing<\/span><\/td>\n1.7<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rent the Runway<\/span><\/td>\nCollaborative Economy<\/span><\/td>\n1<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SUM<\/b><\/td>\n <\/td>\n$246.8 Billion <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What it means: <\/strong><\/p>\n