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Kevin Hartz: Explaining SPACs

Mercury
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This is Series Tea, a podcast where we find the greatest entrepreneurs and investors and force them to have tea with us  -  live on air. This week, we're having tea with Kevin Hartz, co-founder and chairman of Eventbrite. He's an early investor in startups like PayPal, Airbnb, and Pinterest. Most recently, he founded A-*, a new special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) which raised $200 million to acquire A-One and take it public. In this episode, Kevin shares: 0:55: What a SPAC is and why he chose to start one 04:44: How he launched a SPAC in 60 days 15:45: The revenue number at which startups should go public 19:21: The difference between SPACs and direct listings 28:23: How SPACs work in practice ------------ Listen on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0P9aW9a... Listen on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/seri... MORE ABOUT MERCURY We’re transforming how the worl …...more
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Kevin Hartz: Explaining SPACs
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2020Oct 14
This is Series Tea, a podcast where we find the greatest entrepreneurs and investors and force them to have tea with us  -  live on air. This week, we're having tea with Kevin Hartz, co-founder and chairman of Eventbrite. He's an early investor in startups like PayPal, Airbnb, and Pinterest. Most recently, he founded A-*, a new special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) which raised $200 million to acquire A-One and take it public. In this episode, Kevin shares: 0:55: What a SPAC is and why he chose to start one 04:44: How he launched a SPAC in 60 days 15:45: The revenue number at which startups should go public 19:21: The difference between SPACs and direct listings 28:23: How SPACs work in practice ------------ Listen on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0P9aW9a... Listen on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/seri... MORE ABOUT MERCURY We’re transforming how the world operates. Mercury was founded with the idea of making banking* better for startups. We spent our first five years creating a powerful bank account that made banking feel less like an obstacle and more like a catalyst. Now, we’re building software to run all your financial operations from that powerful bank account so your company can perform at its best — that means more precision, more control, and more focus. We call it “operational excellence.” Learn more about how Mercury works: https://mercury.com/how-mercury-works Let banking power yourfinancial operations. Your bank account should do more than hold your money. Now it can. Give it a try: https://demo.mercury.com/dashboard Open an account in under 10 minutes: https://app.mercury.com/signup Get growing with the IO credit card: https://mercury.com/credit Simplify your financial workflows: https://mercury.com/financial-workflows Simplify with bill pay and banking in one: https://mercury.com/bill-pay Close the books like clockwork: mercury.com/accounting-automations Powerful personal banking: https://mercury.com/personal-banking The secure way to grow your runway with Mercury Treasury: https://mercury.com/treasury Extend your runway. Keep your equity: https://mercury.com/venture-debt Our pricing: https://mercury.com/pricing Raise. One platform to; network, get answers, fundraise: https://mercury.com/raise Mercury Blog: https://mercury.com/blog Meridian magazine: https://meridian.mercury.com/ Learn how Mercury works with partner banks: https://mercury.com/blog/inside-mercu... *Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust®; Members FDIC.
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