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Musk’s offer to take Twitter private could benefit the company

April 14, 2022

Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, saying the company needs to be transformed privately. Musk is already the company's second-largest shareholder.

Economics and Business
Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Musk plan to take Twitter public again raises questions

May 4, 2022

Drew Pascarella and Drew Margolin weigh in on Elon Musk's plan to take Twitter public again in a few years.

Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Economics and Business

Airbnb a winner for investors, IPO long overdue

December 10, 2020

Drew Pascarella, senior lecturer of finance at the Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business, comments on Airbnb joining the public market.

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Acquisition of E-Trade a ‘nice win’ for Morgan Stanley

February 20, 2020

Drew Pascarella, senior lecturer of finance at the Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business, comments on Morgan Stanley's announcement that it was buying E-Trade, an online brokerage with 5.2 million client accounts and over $360 billion in client assets. 

Economics and Business
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

WeWork’s IPO to signal post-summer investor attitudes

September 9, 2019

Office-sharing company WeWork is reportedly considering slashing its initial valuation to below $20 billion, a price that falls far short of the firm’s private valuation from January. Drew Pascarella, senior lecturer of finance in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, says that WeWork’s underwhelming position points to several shortcomings in the firm’s financing and business model.

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Economics and Business

IPO to bolster Lyft’s position, provide exit path for investors

February 25, 2019

Ridesharing firm Lyft, which filed a confidential initial public offering filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in December, is gearing up for an IPO in the coming weeks. Drew Pascarella, senior lecturer of finance in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, says the move will open the tech IPO market which has recently been starved.

Economics and Business
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Spotify’s NYSE debut is unique, does not signal broader shift

April 3, 2018

Drew Pascarella, lecturer of finance at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, comments on Spotify’s unorthodox NYSE listing.

Business, Economics & Entrepreneurship
New York City
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Johnson Graduate School of Management

Lyft’s IPO success hinges on distance from Uber

September 28, 2017

Drew Pascarella, lecturer of finance at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, says that the firm’s first goal will be to convince investors Lyft, and not Uber, is the company to which every sharing economy startups should staple itself.

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Netflix investors: When will revenue match content spending?

October 13, 2017

Drew Pascarella, lecturer of finance at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, says investors should focus on the impact of binge-spending on cash flow.

Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Whole Foods ripe for an Amazon purchase

June 16, 2017

Drew Pascarella, a lecturer of finance at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University explains why Amazon is the perfect suitor for cash flow-challenged Whole Foods Market.

Johnson Graduate School of Management