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Lyft Just Announced Their IPO…
…and they beat Uber to it. Just like they wanted to.
News just broke that Lyft has taken the first step towards going public by filing confidential documents with the SEC for an IPO.
Valued at $15B, Lyft didn’t reveal shares it expects to offer, nor a price range. But Lyft did say the IPO will happen as soon as the SEC finishes its review process.
According to sources, that could be as early as Q1 next year, depending on how quickly the SEC reviews its filing. Lyft’s valuation is likely to end up between $20B and $30B, one source told Reuters.
By going public first, Lyft—whose JP Morgan/Credit Suisse and Jefferies all-star banking team will underwrite the IPO—gets a big win over its chief rival Uber.
According to rumors, Lyft CEO Logan Green was caught dancing in a local Silicon Valley bar like…
These are just rumors at this stage, however.
Now we wait for Uber…
Expect Lyft’s IPO to generate massive hype, all the while setting the stage for Uber to join Lyft on Wall Street.
Two of the most hyped unicorns, Lyft and Uber have become insanely popular investment targets, even though neither have yet to turn a profit. (Unprofitable IPOs has been par for the course in 2018; nothing special there.)
As it stands now, UberEats alone is valued higher than Lyft’s $15B. Lyft will want to change that, especially as its private investors seek to score big exit bags. The $20B to $30B IPO target will accomplish just that.
Just for reference, Uber recently got a reported $76B valuation on the private markets. But according to reports, Uber’s looking for a $120B valuation on the public markets.
Still the most valuable startup in the world, Uber brass says their IPO will ultimately end car ownership.
So why did Lyft want to go to the public markets first, just for petty bragging rights?
That’s probably some of it.
But more importantly, by IPO’ing first, Lyft gains the “first-mover advantage” over Uber.
Plus, Lyft now can help steer growth expectations as well as moneymaking potential of ride-hailing services, said Rohit Kulkarni, managing director of SharesPost, which focuses on privately held companies going public.
A big question mark centers around the issue of drivers. According to one study, 96% of Uber drivers quit inside the first year.
How will this affect investor appetite in a company that relies heavily on part-time workers who tend to quit as soon as they find better paying gigs.
One MIT study said Uber drivers make a pathetic $3.37 per hour, once subtracting expenses. In fact, 30% of drivers “are actually losing money once vehicle expenses are included,” the study said.
“The ‘cab-hailing-system’ has been antiquated and left as a dinosaur of yesteryears,” Jeff Zell, senior research analyst and a partner at IPO Boutique in Florida, told Reuters. “The good news for ride-sharing is that it’s a market that has shown to be penetrable.”
The Lyft opportunity
One of Lyft’s challenges will be how to adapt to market changes like autonomous cars.
“With autonomous cars on the horizon, it is anyone’s guess where this sector goes in the future. But Uber and Lyft, as name-brand leaders, are leading the race and will have the war chest to be major players for years to come.”
Sure, Lyft still is a distant second in the ride-sharing category. But it’s been gaining market share due to a series of Uber incidents, including senior execs leaving, accidents and revelations of sexual harassment.
Next year’s IPO should bring more buzz, more attention to Lyft, which then makes more people aware of Lyft as an alternative to Uber.
Your move, Dara…
Yes, you read that right.
If there’s anything the pandemic taught us, it’s that the paradigm of “office” and “workspace” has been shaken to its CORE.
Universities are teaching via Zoom, court dates are done virtually, FULLY REMOTE businesses are valued at $1B+, and legitimate Inc. 5000 startups are run from…wherever. 📲
This is my office for the day…
I am actually running our business from the beach, typing this from here.
It’s 4:28 pm CET, which means it’s 10:28 am EST and I am CRUSHING my to-do list.
(And the team will continue to crush it while I’m asleep. That’s the 🗝)
So how did we get here?
We launched NYCE and our mission to create 100,000 millionaires in March, 2020…just as the global COVID-19 lockdown happened. 😳
As a result, we shut down our main office and set EVERYTHING up to run remotely…
SMOOTHLY! And a system that allows us to outperform competition by 200%. (You can build this system, too. More on this in a second.)
Here’s what we were able to do since then:
- Gained 6M+ followers across all platforms 📈
- Add 1500+ new apartments to the portfolio 🤑
- Grow to $300M in real estate 🚀
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And here’s the best part…
Having team members in all the main time zones gives us a 24-hour work cycle vs. 9-5/eight-hour on-the-clock performance.
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Let me repeat that…3x PRODUCTIVITY vs. our competitors.
Meanwhile our project management software grants us 24-hour TEAM-WIDE connectivity that tracks all tasks and lets us know if productivity dips even a little bit.
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Well, the first step is to have an actual side hustle you’re launching. Not just an idea, a validated business.
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One of the easiest ways to start is with Airbnb—you can start that in 10 minutes. Literally. (Here’s a guide if you need it.)
Once you have your business, you build a virtual infrastructure (you really just need two softwares, which are FREE), manage the team accordingly and run the business from there.
I’m gonna put together a step-by-step video breakdown this weekend inside the new TRIBE U on the FIVE key things you need to do this for YOURSELF. 💵 💎
From what software to use, how to build a team, how to keep.
In the meantime, drop a comment if you’re ready to build some wealth and any questions if you want more…
Let’s get to work. 🙌
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Investor and popular Instagram influencer Philip Michael says new fintechs need to take greater responsibility for their younger traders.
“Promoting financial literacy is a must, but encouraging risky gambling is reckless,” Philip Michael, NYCE CEO, says.
In 2020, a 20-year-old Robinhood trader killed himself after engaging in risky options trading and seeing his balance $730,000 in the red, leading to a wrongful death lawsuit against the investment app.
“The main apps onboard as many new users as humanly possible, but there’s really no educational process,” Michael says, “and these first-time investors are left to figure things out on their own.”
NYCE—a fintech focused on creating wealth for minorities—wants to create 100,000 millionaires through real estate investments and wealth education.
Through its app, investors can own shares in apartment complexes for as little as $100.
Since launching, NYCE has set records for most new first-time BIPOC real estate owners, buying over 1500 apartments in the pandemic and splitting ownership with its investor crowd.
Once investors are in, NYCE automatically enrolls investors in an online wealth academy (TRIBE) that teaches basic wealth principles, responsible investing and how to spot irregular fads like altcoins and meme stocks.
“Becoming a millionaire is a function of time and habit, not luck and one-time scores,” Michael says. “The micro-investments are really just the gateway drug to that wealth mindset.”
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