thanks to mike hoefflinger, author of "becoming facebook."ing up, the latest news on dropbox, pricing its shares above an already increased range. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: dropbox is getting ready for its public offering on friday. dropbox raised $756 million in its ipo, according to a person familiar with the matter, pricing its shares above an already increased range. the total of 36 million shares piece, saidr $21 a the person who asked not to be identified. trading begins tomorrow on the nasdaq. alex barinka covers deals in new york. obviously demand is strong. , what does this price tell us? alex: folks are willing to buy in. it also tells us that dropbox is closing the gap on this discrepancy between private and public. it's a thing a lot of people have been focused on. they set a $10 billion private valuation. this gets them a little closer to $10 billion. we will see what happens when this starts trading tomorrow. a is a vote of confidence in market that has not been favorable for tech stocks. if you looked at the trading today, th