we just broke the headline of glassdoor preparing for an ipo and we will get bloomberg reporter alex barinkaho covers deals for us. what do we know? >> blaster is interviewing bankers and according to people familiar with the matter, the online job company is looking to list in the second half of this year. that could change but it is a concerted step forward for a company that has been on my watchlist since they raised money to couple of years ago giving it a valuation of almost a billion dollars. the listing would come on the heels of what we have seen as a rush of companies getting towards the public market. drop box filed last friday so it could be a good indication we have more like a store to come. emily: guster is taking on executives, what do know about the business model and how well is this is doing? alex: the business is going strong and what we hear, revenue is growing at a 30% cut which is what investors typically like to see added these companies anything less than that is seen as a bad sign, and glassdoor just brought in the chief financial officer who used to work at advent s

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bloomberg ipo reporter alex barinka joins us now from san francisco. re details about this ipo and what the financials contain. alex: this isn't just an ipo it is a direct listing. bytify taking unique means listing the stock and a drop the registration statement and the top line numbers here that caught my eye. if i am looking at revenue, they came in at $4 billion in euro revenue last are and it is $5 billion u.s. and it is up 39% from 2016. from a growth rate perspective they are growing at a 45%. the company is still posting losses but it seems like it is leaning on its leadership role in the music streaming industry to turn that around. if i drill down to user numbers, the company came out and said the descriptions are up at the paying users are up toward 6% year-over-year and the company currently has 71 million subscribers. the monthly active users in the fourth quarter were listening for 25 hours a month in the fourth quarter. strong financials and it seems like the company will be leading on as it convinces investors to buy into the stock. an i

alex barinka is with us. still with us, david kirkpatrick. alex, where do we stand?uitors and what is the likelihood of something happening? alex: you are right, twitter is the perennial name brought up in terms of targets out here on the west coast. this earnings report today potentially increases that probability for a few reasons. if you ask folks on bloomberg intelligence, they say that the parchment -- the departure of the coo and the fact jack dorsey is managing two companies boosts the potential of them becoming a target. talking to other sources on the you might wantid to buy a ship that is going down, but not a ship that is going down and on fire. that is something that might have eased concerns with results today. if you look at twitter's results today, they did turn a profit for the first time. it is not necessarily because the top line looks pretty. they have been deliberately cutting expenses. their expense base has gone down by a significant amount. saying,re coming in and what could this asset do for me, you don't want to take on something that is burn

alex barinka caught up with the ceo at the tech conference to get the latest on how they are continuingse above the competition. take a listen. >> we are different because we are mobile only and we initially focused on the mobile only use case of last-minute rooms. that is how we got in the marketing got a foothold in got a lot of customers using us. we have expanded since then to take on more and more cases. our customers are now using us for all of their hotel booking. they can book way far in advance. we make it so easy to book at the last minute and give you the best deals because we use mobile to target the deals at the right customers. >> i remember a few months back i was interviewing the ceo of travelocity and it struck me how similar a lot of these companies are. i hear you on the mobile differentiation and i hear you on the last-minute booking, but it seems like a very crowded space. as you continue to mature how do , you take market share from the bookings.com, travelocity, hotels.com, as you go forward? to focus onegy is product execution in product innovation in bringing so

joining us now with more details is alex barinka. was not long ago that ring was booted off of "shark tank." alex: it was just five years , ago. the ceo with on shark tank asking for $700,000, saying it was valued at $7 million to get it now fast-forward half a decade later, they are selling for $1 billion to amazon. a nice little ending here for ring. perhaps a look back to the sharks and say, look at what we have done. for amazon, it is an important step as they continue to push into these more consumer facing hardware. we have seen amazon in the past six months or so really tried to embed themselves in consumers's homes. you saw it with amazon key, where you can unlock it for delivery folks so they can deliver packages, and you have seen it with amazon echo. this fits nicely within the entire ecosystem because, you know what? amazon's goal is not selling hardware but getting more -- getting the hardware in so they can sell more products on e-commerce platform and get you to open your pocketbook a little more. emily: talk about how

in the goldman sachs conference is happening right now, and alex barinka joins us to talk about the currentcape. greg, and here with he is the head of this division and goldman sachs, and greg, as you oversee m&a, you see capital markets -- we have had talks these last couple of weeks about the volatility in the market right now. in your capacity of overseeing deals -- has that actually impacted decision-making? last week was an interesting week and markets and it goes to show conventional wisdom is always wrong. if you go to weeks ago and as somebody about volatility, it would say we will never see it again, but last week we saw at the highest. the market will settle down and volatility will be ok and contained. volatility is generally not a friend of m&a and transactions but it might be a one-time market correction of values being down eight percent to a 10%. i think will be fine. if you are a private equity firm or a strategic looking to buy another company, i've got to think a better evaluation correction i'd be a welcome occurrence. >> absolutely. it is only one way, but if what happen

bring in our deals reporter alex barinka and joins francisco,of san alex, they are skipping a lot ofually is a part of an ipo listing process. how does that tell us about business at spotify is performing? think they are good enough to draw investor demand without having to go out like a company normally what on this ipo process. they did file today, they had to file a big filing with the sec to give us a first look under the hood of spotify and he seemed to be doing better. active users, 71 million of those paid users. the business is continuing to improve as they say they are the biggest market share of 42% of the music streaming market. mentioned highlights from this 264 page document, and that is all investors have to look forward to. what numbers should they be paying attention to? alex: the top headline number is revenue growth. the company says they brought 4.9 billion u.s. dollars last year in 2017 and that is up 39% from 2016. the other thing investors will pay attention to is the bottom line. it is still in money-losing company and have not posted a profit in the four years