INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
we had the Three Excellent Friends (Connie Loizos, Danny Chrichton, and Alex Wilhelm) on hand to kick things about with Scale Venture
And like the last few episodes, we had to pick and choose what to drill into
This week: Twilio-Sendgrid, Palantir, Uber, Lyft, and Tencent Music IPOs, Instacart, and Saudi Arabia.In order, I think First, we tackled
Keep in mind that they are both recent IPOs; Twilio went out in 2016, and SendGrid in 2017.The $2 billion-ish all-stock transaction is
extension of API-powered communications toolset.Next up we dug into the chance that Palantir is worth $41 billion
Then we chatted the two other recently-floated IPO valuations for Uber ($120 billion) and Lyft ($15 billion)
They probably make more sense, depending a little on how you add and then divide.All that and we also touched on the recent delay in the
Tencent Music IPO, a profitable company.Then we riffed through the Instacart round ($600 million more at a $7.6 billion valuation; wow), and
startups.A big thanks to you for not only sticking with Equity for so long, but also for making it quite literally as popular as it has ever
