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Re:WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources by mrweasel on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:57AM (#20992034)
Blue Apron and WeWork share a common problem, they’re viewed as tech companies, even when they’re clearly not.

Being tech companies means that they’re viewed as part of a group of companies who have pulled of billion dollars IPO, so they’re wrongly focus on “no less than the one billion”. Mentally the jump from 1 billion to 2 billion is also a lot less that the jump from 150 million to 1 billion, so why not go for 2 billion.

Re:WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources by htfu on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:37PM (#20998634)
By any standard whatsoever a 100% jump is a lot less than one that's 500%+. What does that even mean?