February 25, 2019· 26 min

How To Analyze An IPO

Orality
Model
59%
Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)

Speaker Breakdown

HostJoe Weisenthal(1,881 words)
M:28%
HostTracy Alloway(3,010 words)
M:27%
GuestRett Wallace(174 words)
M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic32%
literally, completely, huge
Engagement57%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
companies (51x), like (47x), they (45x)
Parallelism100%
So not going to be a long intr..., So I wanna talk more about the..., And to discuss this, I have wi...
Sound Patterns68%
37 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases7%
you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging9%
might, fairly, could
Passive Voice7%
were imposed, was installed, was developed
Abstract Nouns24%
investment, recommendation, introduction
Subordination13%
because, since, until
Sentence Length42%
Avg: 15.6 words/sentence
Word Complexity49%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style43%
309 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style74%
literally, completely, highly

Description

Some of Silicon Valley's biggest unicorns like Uber and Slack are expected to go public this year. But when companies finally pull the trigger and launch their IPOs, what factors should you keep in mind before investing? On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we speak with Rett Wallace of Triton.ai about how his company analyzes IPOs, and why some companies are going public later in their lives. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.