This Week in Pre-IPO Stocks

E215: Aquihires a better M&A?; JPM to kill fintech?; 6 new, huge primary rounds!; Does anyone have an electricity guy?

E214: SpaceX soars to $400B valuation; Revolut banks on $65B valuation boost; Groq chips in at $6B valuation; Mistral AI storms to $1B+ raise; Harmonic AI tunes up to $875M valuation; xAI unleashes Grok 4 at PhD-level smarts; X's Yaccarino exits after X m

E213: Groq is the private market Nvidia?; Figma’s IPO a buy?; Robinhood’s pre-IPO stock tokenization legal and good for investors?

E212: Josh Brown, Michael Batnick, and Aaron Dillon talk 2H 2025 IPOs, pre-IPO stocks to watch, dynamics of the private stock market

In this episode, Josh Brown hosts Aaron Dillon, an IPO and pre-IPO venture-backed startup expert, to discuss the current state of the IPO market. They analyze recent IPO successes like Circle and CoreWeave, debate whether these IPOs were underpriced, and discuss the imperfect nature of the IPO process. Aaron shares ins...

E211: Harvey disrupting the law firm industry, or driving it to new revenue levels?; Wealthfront a buy post-IPO?; Prediction markets a business with staying power?

E210: Harvey eyes $5B primary valuation amid legal AI surge; Wealthfront preps IPO after strong $290M revenue; Snyk acquires Invariant to secure AI risks; PlayAI in acquisition talks with Meta; OpenAI and Microsoft clash over AGI clause; Kalshi hits $2B p

E209: OpenAI proposes Microsoft own 33% equity in for-profit transition; Cluely records everything you see, say, and hear; Canva secondary deal at $37b valuation; What is Scale’s secondary valuation post-Meta deal?

E208: OpenAI strikes defense deal, hits $314B in secondaries; OpenAI-Microsoft standoff over equity, revenue, IP, and AGI; xAI burns billions, seeks $9.3B more amid $121B valuation; Anysphere doubles valuation weeks after raise; Genius Act sets stage for

E207: Meta buys Scale 49% of Scale AI; Ramp raises at $16b; AI app, Glean, raises at $7.2b

E206: Scale AI gets $14.3B from Meta, hits $29B valuation; Starlink doubles subs to 6M, adds 100K in Africa; SpaceX expands Starship launch capacity in Florida; Databricks adds Google Gemini, hits $72.8B valuation; Perplexity partners with Nvidia, eyes $1

E205: AI teaching our kids, Alpha School (Texas); Circle IPO a huge success; Meta’s $10b investment into Scale AI

E204: Musk's political bets pay off; Future of personal devices (Neuralink, OpenAI/Ive, Meta/Google glasses); AI Apps the next huge investment opportunity?

E203: OpenAI & Microsoft closer to deal; Wonder is no bueno?; Function Health, wearables + pre-IPO health stocks

E202: SpaceX cleared for 25 Starship launches at Starbase; Wonder raises $600M at $7B+ valuation; Function Health seeks $2B valuation after Ezra deal; OpenAI seeks to restructure Microsoft deal; OpenAI appoints Instacart CEO to lead applications division;

E201: eToro IPO is happening!; Starlink winning in Africa, Congo approval; Epic wins vs Apple, Fortnite back on iOS; Nick in Omaha for Warren Buffett

E200: Neuralink raises $500M at $9B valuation; Discord appoints new CEO amid IPO speculation; Last of X debt sold by MStanley; Glean raises at $7B valuation as ARR tops $100M; Anthropic adds Claude features, projects $34.5B revenue by 2027; Epic Games win

E199: Revolut is killing it!; Shein + tariff impact; Autonomous driving regulation

E198: Buyer of Rippling at $16b?; Figma IPO at $21b?; Humanoid robots run marathon

E197: Are you a buyer of Safe Superintelligence at $33b, Thinking Machines at $10b; Pre-IPO opportunities from tariffs

E196: Thinking Machines targets $10B valuation with $2B seed round; ByteDance revenue hits $155B in 2024; Anysphere(Cursor) revenue quadruples, eyes $10B valuation; Nuro raises $106M at $6B valuation; Base Power raises $200M to scale affordable home batte