{"id":6460,"date":"2018-12-08T21:48:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2018-12-08T21:48:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T02:48:28","slug":"uber-vs-lyft-ipo-boutique-comments-on-the-race-to-be-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/uber-vs-lyft-ipo-boutique-comments-on-the-race-to-be-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber vs. Lyft &#8212; IPO Boutique comments on the race to be first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is being first to cross the IPO finish line really that important?\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><em>IPO BOUTIQUE COMMENTS ON THE UBER VS. LYFT RACE<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Everyone is worried about this Lyft vs. Uber race to hit public markets and I think it is a non-story. Uber had widespread turmoil within their company that the new CEO is working to repair. All the while, the company has massive expectations to live up to based on a private valuation that raced ahead of itself. Uber should be thinking about putting infrastructure in place to grow 5-or-10 times the size of it is right now which is the type of dialogue that new investors would want to hear. The drawback in either of these companies is the massive amount of cash they are burning. At some point, these companies have to turn a profit or have a plan to get there.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">With all that being said, the advantage of being \u201cfirst\u201d is not having the direct comparison to the other. Once Lyft\u2019s financials are out in the public, Uber will be instantly compared to Lyft and valued as such.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is being first to cross the IPO finish line really that important?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"zakra_general_container_width":0,"zakra_general_content_width":0,"zakra_general_sidebar_width":0,"zakra_sticky_header":"customizer","zakra_header_main_area":true,"zakra_site_logo_width":0,"zakra_header_top_enabled":"customizer","zakra_header_top_style":"customizer","zakra_primary_menu_item_style":"customizer","zakra_page_header_text_color":"","zakra_page_header_layout":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg":"","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_image":0,"zakra_page_title_bg_repeat":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_position":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_size":"customizer","zakra_page_title_bg_attachment":"customizer","zakra_breadcrumbs_enabled":"customizer","zakra_breadcrumbs_text_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_link_color":"","zakra_breadcrumbs_link_hover_color":"","zakra_page_title_bg_image":0,"zakra_footer_widgets_enabled":"customizer","zakra_footer_column_layout_1_style":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg":"","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_repeat":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_position":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_size":"customizer","zakra_footer_widgets_bg_attachment":"customizer","zakra_footer_bar_enabled":"customizer","zakra_footer_bar_style":"customizer","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipo","category-subscriber-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6460\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipoboutique.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}