We have to recognize the Senior Member here, and treat to welcome current and former colleagues and i have worked with this panel in some form or another inside and outside of government. It is a treat to welcome everybody here on the nyu school of Law Community where i am a distinguished fellow. Welcome to the program and my colleagues. This is a treat for me to be joined together with you once again to talk about a really important and timely subject, the issue of National Security and how the executive branch and the legislative branch address some of the most Critical Issues of our time, and i will do some very brief introductions in a minute, but you will understand that the theme here is that every single one of the distinguished Public Servants served in the executive branch in the National Security community and the searching topic for today is how has that service informed your view as legislators and how can we be best poised from both branches perspective to confront some of
Instead of having your Diabetic Management Program happen through Insurance Company x, it is now happening through Venture Capital backed technology organizational wide. For hospitals and providers area and, i mean, an example of a disruptors telemedicine. Finding the opportunity, if you are a telemedicine organization to say we know individuals are not getting as much primary care, or at least lets say in that moment of need, it is 2 00 a. M. , child wakes up crying, you know, holding the ear. The telemedicine organization would say we are going to disrupt by not just assuming that persons should go person should go to the emergency room at 2 30 a. M. They can use their smart phone to patch into a physician who, with some information, can look through the phone, possibly prescribe an antibiotic to help the child because of a probable ear infection. Those are a couple of examples. I think it is disrupting in both ways. I understand the impact. I guess the word is weird to me. But anywa
First, to our top story. Slack makes its public debut the at a direct listing on the new york stock exchange, opening 48 above its reference price. Valuing the software messenger at more than 20 billion, a big increase from the last private valuation. They raised money at a 70. 1 billion valuation. I caught up with slack right before shares began trading. At this point it has been working exactly the way it is supposed to work and ultimately, we will open and have a high and low. The same thing will happen tomorrow and we are very much focused on the longterm. Emily you are still paying large fees to bankers. You raise a lot of money. So what problem are you really solving by doing a direct listing versus a traditional ipo . The first is there is no need to raise primary capital. We came into the process with 300 million on the balance sheet. Dilution to existing shareholders would have been tough. We did get a little more freedom with how we tell the story. Instead of only having a ro
Slack makes its public debut the at a direct listing on the new york stock exchange, opening 48 above its reference price. Valuing the software messenger at more than 20 billion, a big increase from the last private valuation. 70. 1raised money at a billion dollar valuation. Slack rightwith before shares began trading. At this point it has been working exactly the way it is supposed to work and ultimately, we will open and have a high and low. The same thing will happen tomorrow and we are very much focused on the longterm. You are still paying large fees to bankers. You raise a lot of money. So what problem are you really solving by doing a direct listing versus a traditional ipo . The first is there is no need to raise primary capital. We came into the process with 300 million on the balance sheet. Dilution to existing shareholders would have been tough. We did get a little more freedom with how we tell the story. Instead of only having a roadshow and private rooms with investors, we
First, to our top story. Slack makes its public debut the at a direct listing on the new york stock exchange, opening 48 above its reference price. Valuing the software messenger at more than 20 billion, a big increase from the last private valuation. They raised money at a 70. 1 7. 1 billion valuation. I caught up with slack right before shares began trading. At this point it has been working exactly the way it is supposed to work and ultimately, we will open and have a high and low. The same thing will happen tomorrow and we are very much focused on the longterm. Emily you are still paying large fees to bankers. You raise a lot of money. So what problem are you really solving by doing a direct listing versus a traditional ipo . The first is there is no need to raise primary capital. We came into the process with 300 million on the balance sheet. Dilution to existing shareholders would have been tough. We did get a little more freedom with how we tell the story. Instead of only having