CNBC said the execs and bankers are going to be traveling to NYC and Boston this week to pitch to investors, and it is scheduled to be trading "late next week."

TechCrunch is saying this month: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/12/dropbox-ipo-range/

However, I was under the understanding this process takes 2-3 months.

Very very early was a decade ago when they were looking for investors :)

Why? What avenues of growth do you see that they have not explored?

just because they want to get in early doesn't mean they want to hold long term. If everyone did "firm foundations" the markets would vaguely make sense but I feel like the "castles in the sky" is often more prominent which is a big part of why markets are so noisy and hard to read.

Jesus Christ! What is wrong with people here on HN? Why am I being downvoted for asking when a stock is going to start trading? Wow

It can be vexing when people downvote your comments but please don't break the site guidelines by going on about it. That only ever makes the thread worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Perhaps because it's not an interesting comment.

Attempting to find out when a stock starts trading in a thread about an IPO isn't interesting?

It's 1999 again