Nasdaq Drops 6.3% in 6 Days, as Uber & Lyft IPOs Turn into Colossal Flops. S&P 500 Chart Not Pretty by Wolf Richter • May 13, 2019 • 55 Comments Russell 2000 back where it had first been in November 2017.
What’ll Happen to Home Prices in Silicon Valley & San Francisco after IPOs Shake Loose All These Startup Millionaires? Last Two Times, We Got a Housing Bust by Wolf Richter • Apr 14, 2019 • 84 Comments Here’s how it works. Meanwhile, the media is busy publishing real-estate industry hype.
Uber Discloses 3-Yr $10-Billion Loss from Operations, Stalling Rideshare Revenue & 50 Pages of “Risk Factors” that Are Not for the Squeamish by Wolf Richter • Apr 11, 2019 • 89 Comments But it had big tax benefits & one-time gains. And Uber Eats is hot, so to speak.
Lyft Shares Plunge 10% in 4 Hours from “Pop” to Close by Wolf Richter • Mar 29, 2019 • 109 Comments IPO investors tried to unload while they could.
How Can a Company with $1.8 Billion in Revenue Lose $1.9 Billion? WeWork Shows How by Wolf Richter • Mar 25, 2019 • 108 Comments The financial world has gone nuts.
Preparing for a Coming Winter Storm? WeWork Pivots to Minimize Risk for Itself by John McNellis • Jan 28, 2019 • 56 Comments WeWork landlords in America are likely to learn: In a down market, they’re all going to be partners, voluntarily or otherwise.
Housing Bubble Trouble in Silicon Valley & San Francisco by Wolf Richter • Jan 7, 2019 • 118 Comments But this time it’s not a result of a tech bust. That hasn’t happened yet.
Nasdaq, “Tech,” & IPOs are in for Gut-Wrencher by Wolf Richter • Dec 24, 2018 • 71 Comments Nasdaq down 24% already. Renaissance IPO ETF down 31%. But Uber and other unicorns plan record IPOs in 2019, à la dotcom-crash-debut in 2000.
Startup Boom a “Dangerous, High-Stakes Ponzi Scheme”: Silicon Valley Investor by Wolf Richter • Nov 7, 2018 • 60 Comments “It’s time to wait patiently as the air is slowly let out of this bizarre Ponzi balloon created by the venture capital industry.”
What Future Is Uber Seeing for Itself? by John McNellis • Jul 15, 2018 • 59 Comments Its fleet of autonomous cars thus far has gone the way of the Spanish Armada, producing nothing but grief.
