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2020年10月15日 星期四

上市了，發財了 ：In an industry marked by misogyny and scandal, BTS trades in niceness防彈少年團經紀公司IPO， 40億美元估值背後的秘密是什麼？Big Hit Entertainment (Korea), Palantir Technologies Inc. Palantir

 

K-pop boy band #BTS' agency starts trading at double the IPO price, rising as much as 30%. Each of the seven singers is now $20 million richer.


BTS, the biggest boy band on the planet, present themselves as down-to-earth, frank about the pressures and downsides of fame, and socially engaged

In an industry marked by misogyny and scandal, BTS trades in niceness
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In an industry marked by misogyny and scandal, BTS trades in niceness
防彈少年團團體活動照。

防彈少年團團體活動照。 Nina Westervelt for The New York Times

•防彈少年團經紀公司IPO， 40億美元估值背後的秘密是什麼？ Big Hit於週四在韓國開始上市交易，全球機構和散戶爭先恐後想分一杯羹，平均每股都有數百人預購。但投資者真正看中的可能不是這支男團或這家經濟公司，而是它具有高粘度的粉絲生態系統。

BTS at the Golden Disk Awards in Seoul in January.   Ahn Young-Joon/Associated Press

The secret behind BTS’s $4 billion stock debut

Shares in Big Hit Entertainment, the management company behind the K-pop group, begin trading in South Korea today. The country’s most hotly anticipated initial public offering since 2017 has investors scrambling, with hundreds of pre-orders for every share.
What investors are really paying for may not be BTS or its management company, but its ecosystem of followers. BTS fans are known as some of the most devoted in music. Beyond attending concerts, they enthusiastically perform services for the band that range from translating BTS content to running highly coordinated social media campaigns.
The fan base, which calls itself the Army, is diverse, cutting across lines of gender, age, religion and nationality. But investors remain concerned about the company’s dependence on BTS, as boy bands usually have short life spans.
Details: Big Hit reported a profit of $86 million last year, and is valued at around $4 billion, after raising more than $800 million by offering investors about 20 percent of the company. BTS was the world’s most lucrative touring act last year and, by one estimate, adds more than $3.5 billion annually to South Korea’s economy.

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Palantir Technologies  公司上市了

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Palantir Technologies Inc.
Public
Traded asNYSE: PLTR
IndustrySoftware
Founded2003; 17 years ago
FoundersPeter Thiel
Nathan Gettings
Joe Lonsdale
Stephen Cohen
Alex Karp
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado, US[1]
Key people
Products
  • Palantir Gotham
  • Palantir Foundry
RevenueIncrease$739 million (2019)[2]
Number of employees
Increase2,500 (October 2019)[3][4]
Websitewww.palantir.com

Palantir Technologies is a public American software company that specializes in big data analytics. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, it was founded by Peter Thiel, Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Alex Karp. The company's name is derived from The Lord of the Rings where the magical palantír were "seeing-stones" which allowed their users to communicate with each other or to see faraway parts of the world.

The company is known for three projects in particular: Palantir Gotham, Palantir Metropolis and Palantir Foundry. Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at offices in the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and United States Department of Defense.[5] In the past, Gotham was used by fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, a former US federal agency which operated from 2009 to 2015. Gotham was also used by cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor, a Canadian public-private venture which operated from 2003 to 2012. Palantir Metropolis is used by hedge funds, banks, and financial services firms.[6][7] Palantir Foundry is used by corporate clients such as Morgan Stanley, Merck KGaA, Airbus, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV.[8]

Palantir's original clients were federal agencies of the USIC. It has since expanded its customer base to serve state and local governments, as well as private companies in the financial and healthcare industries.[9] Karp, Palantir's chief executive officer, announced in 2013 that the company would not pursue an IPO, as going public would make "running a company like ours very difficult".[10] However, on October 18, 2018, the Wall Street Journal reported that Palantir was considering an IPO in the first half of 2019 following a $41 billion valuation.[11] In July 2020, it was revealed the company had filed for an IPO.[12]

The company was valued at $9 billion in early 2014, with Forbes stating that the valuation made Palantir "among Silicon Valley's most valuable private technology companies".[10] As of December 2014, Thiel was Palantir's largest shareholder.[10] In January 2015, the company was valued at $15 billion after an undisclosed round of funding with $50 million in November 2014.[13] This valuation rose to $20 billion in late 2015 as the company closed an $880 million round of funding.[4] Palantir has never reported a profit. In 2018, Morgan Stanley valued the company at $6 billion.[14]

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