The Uber IPO

My God, this is insane. I have literally twenty one pages of notes in the Google Docs. Mm. Welcome to season four, episode six of Acquired, the podcast about technology, acquisitions, and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenball. And we are your hosts.

We sit here today on the day of Uber's long awaited IPO and David, let me tell you, I am super pumped. To be here today. Me as well, Ben. Me as well. Well here uh here was my alternate intro, and frankly I have a few here. We covered Pinterest and Lyft recently, both valued at about 15 billion dollars. Today we are covering a company who has raised over twenty billion dollars.

In Uber. Or perhaps this third, Uber just raised eight billion dollars, or approximately one half of Lyft's entire market cap. In its IPO. Or maybe this fourth one. Today we are diving into a company whose epic history is matched

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