I dont consider myself a journalist. No one else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though day job and was running a private equity firm. Define leadership . It that makes somebody tick the c. E. O. Of uber for how long now . Dara two years. David you enjoy it . Dara i love it. David when you came in the was not a public company. Youve taken it public . Dara yes. Avid youve received a lot of publicity about the ipo. Obviously, you know that. He company now has a higher market capitalization, roughly 72 billion, Something Like that market capitalization than any company in american capitalism history except for in this short a time after its ipo. So many people criticizing you for having added cap . Illion market dara i think there are many critics out there especially for companies. Thats a fact of life. I do think whats different some of the Technology Companies of our generation that the socalledlic, stayed , is that weve at i
Could you fix your tie, please . People would not recognize me if my tie was fixed. All right. David i dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I begin to take on the life of an interviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have been the ceo of uber for how long now . Dara two years. David do you enjoy it . Dara i love it. David the company was not a public company. You have taken it public. You received a lot of publicity about the ipo. The company has a higher market capitalization, roughly 72 billion. Higher market capitalization than any company in american capitalism history except for facebook, this short a time after the ipo. Why are so many people criticizing you for having a 72 billion market cap . Dara i think there are many critics for a large company. That is a fact of life. What is different about some of the companies of our generat
David i dont consider myself a journalist, and nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David you have been the ceo of uber for how long now . Dara two years. David two years . And you enjoy it . Dara i love it. David when you came in, the company was not a public company. You have taken it public, and you have received a lot of publicity about the ipo. Obviously you know that. The company now has a higher market capitalization, roughly 72 billion. Something like that. Higher market capitalization than any company in american capitalism history, except for facebook, this short a time after its ipo. Why are so many people criticizing you for having a 72 billion market cap . Dara [laughter] i think there are many critics out there, especially for a large company. That is a fact of life. I think what is
Halfway through 2019 its the last trading day of the first half how has tech performed what about all of these recent ipos bob pisani has some of those answers and joins us on set. You know what i love . I love how wrong the consensus is humans are terrible at predicting the future and nobody is worse than wall street at it, so remember when we started in 2000, back in january, everybody said, the ipo market, oh, theres going to be 200 of them. Everybodys going to go public no one will want all of this stuff. Theyll price this stuff too high and the only thing anybody wants is uber and lyft are they sure they want those . Everything was wrong. Look at the numbers. Were at the first half of the year with. 62 in the Second Quarter, 25 billion. It was the most active quarter by deal count in four years. It was the most capital raised in five years. And look at the 30 the average return on ipo. Thats twice what it historically has been. So the answer was, oh, it turns out theres people dyi
Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I begin to take on the life of an interviewer, even though i have a day job running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have been the ceo of uber for how long now . Dara two years. David do you enjoy it . Dara i love it. David the company was not a public company. You have taken it public. You received a lot of publicity about the ipo. The company has a higher market capitalization, roughly 72 billion. Higher market capitalization than any company in american capitalism history except for facebook, this short a time after the ipo. Why are so many people criticizing you for having a 72 billion market cap . Dara i think there are many critics for a large company. That is a fact of life. What is different about some of the companies of our generation that are coming public, the socalled unicorns, we have stayed private for longer. We have raised more money over a longer time. When w