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ALIBABA to Go Public
MaichBlack
#1 Posted : Wednesday, May 07, 2014 11:40:14 AM
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Alibaba, the world's largest online market place is to go public. At > $16 Billion dollars, it will be the biggest tech IPO ever.

some of the money will be used in acquisitions which means it can only get bigger!

Let's start a discourse on this so that wazuans can decide if they will get a piece of the pie!

Alibaba Files IPO paperwork

Alibaba to change business in the US

About Alibaba.com

Alibaba.com
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mpobiz
#2 Posted : Wednesday, May 07, 2014 1:29:55 PM
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When is WAZUA going public?
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mv_ufanisi
#3 Posted : Wednesday, May 07, 2014 4:15:56 PM
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Alibaba is a giant already so it's not going to grow as fast anymore. Best case scenario would be to find a future Alibaba today and invest. Good luck :)
MaichBlack
#4 Posted : Wednesday, May 07, 2014 7:27:47 PM
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mv_ufanisi wrote:
Alibaba is a giant already so it's not going to grow as fast anymore. Best case scenario would be to find a future Alibaba today and invest. Good luck :)

It's a giant only in China. Outside China most people don't even know the company and hence the lack of responses to this thread!
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Rankaz13
#5 Posted : Wednesday, May 07, 2014 10:14:47 PM
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Having bought stuff from there, I say way to go and kudos to them. I found them much more flexible, responsive and willing to accomodate our (my?) peculiarities e.g. lack of credit cards for online transactions.
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Mukiri
#6 Posted : Wednesday, May 07, 2014 11:21:55 PM
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mpobiz wrote:
When is WAZUA going public?

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hisah
#7 Posted : Thursday, May 08, 2014 4:04:19 AM
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@maichblack - have you compared it with amazon? Check the revenues of both and the profit from the revenues. On this basis I'd call it a buy ali sell amazon/ebay as long as the listing price is not overvalued.

As for the risks, quite a lot needs to be digested now that it has opted to float in US (either on nyse or nasdaq) and bypassed hongkong due to its strict listing regulations.

http://mobile.nytimes.co...ting-in-alibabas-i-p-o/

But first, I need to see the float being listed and at what price for a better discussion on biz valuation etc. And as usual the underwriters roll call reads C,CS, GS, DB, JPM & MS.
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Doombringer
#8 Posted : Monday, May 13, 2019 2:39:04 PM
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But why do you saying it's the biggest IPO ever really. Haven't you seen something bigger than that in western countries or so or maybe in America ? I think it's not like that, but I still buy from it a lot of times and happy too see that such site exists anyway;)
Horton
#9 Posted : Monday, May 13, 2019 2:47:39 PM
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MaichBlack wrote:
Alibaba, the world's largest online market place is to go public. At > $16 Billion dollars, it will be the biggest tech IPO ever.

some of the money will be used in acquisitions which means it can only get bigger!

Let's start a discourse on this so that wazuans can decide if they will get a piece of the pie!

Alibaba Files IPO paperwork

Alibaba to change business in the US

About Alibaba.com

Alibaba.com


Not true. Uber was the world’s biggest tech IPO at $75.5B and FB at $104B


NewMoney
#10 Posted : Monday, May 13, 2019 9:11:09 PM
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Alibaba was the biggest IPO ever when it happened in 2014 and still is even after the uber IPO.

Note the amount raised during IPO is a different metric from the market cap of a company. The poster above definitely has the two mixed up
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