The Lyft IPO

I I don't know about you, but I've literally like I've been like I've had trouble sleeping the last couple of nights like ear this morning. I woke up at yeah, I woke up at six thirty and like Uh went for I ran down here to the office and like I spent all last night and all today just like getting hype. Welcome to Season 4, Episode 4 of Acquired, the podcast about technology, acquisitions, and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm David Rosenthal. And we are your hosts.

Well, David, as Vince Vaughn once said to Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers. It's wedding season kid. The IPO floodgates are open and we are here with the very first one of twenty nineteen. the lift IPO. And I am so excited.

I know. Well, obviously this is an important moment for lift and ride sharing broadly, but what it represents for the entire technology industry is possibly even greater. That the good times can continue. We've had a serious in big tech IPOs over the last few years, with most of these companies opting too famously Stay private longer.

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