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But in the eyes of venture capitalist Eric Kim, Coupang has already been out-Amazoning Amazon in Korea for a while. SoftBank-backed Coupang, which raised $4.6 billion in IPO proceeds, had an extremely auspicious start on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. Shares rocketed as much as 84% intraday before paring gains and closing up 42% on the day. The ten-year-old company is led by billionaire Bom Kim, who dropped out of Harvard Business School after just six months to capture the massive e-commerce opportunity in South Korea. Eric Kim first met Bom Kim in 2011, also just six months after Coupang launched. Then, as a managing director at the long/short hedge fund Maverick Capital, Eric led the early-stage investment in Coupang on behalf of Maverick and stayed on the board at Coupang on Maverick s behalf until 2017. ....
Investors are viewing the recent slump and volatility in SPAC names differently, and some of them have placed massive shorts on high-profile SPACs. ....
Matthew Tuttle is the chief executive and chief investment officer of Tuttle Tactical Management. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Matthew Tuttle is the chief executive and chief investment officer of Tuttle Tactical Management. He manages the $147.2 million SPAC and New Issue ETF, which has returned 12.94% this year. Tuttle shares his three-part SPAC picking strategy and three of his favorite blank-check companies. Just like the newly filed Do It Again Corp., SPACs are doing it again breaking the record month after month. According to Goldman Sachs, 90 Special Purpose Acquisition Companies raised $32 billion in IPO capital in February, the largest issuance month on record. Year-to-date, 204 blank-check companies have raised $65.4 billion compared to the $83.4 billion raised by the 248 SPACs last year, according to ....
Tom Finke s Adara Acquisition Corp. (ADRA), which made its debut on Tueday, was among the new blank-check companies. While Finke s name might not be as familiar as recent SPAC entrants such as Colin Kaepernick or Shaquille O Neal, he is a financial force of his own having served as the CEOs of two asset managers and famously led the 2016 merger of Babson Capital, Barings Asset Management, and two other MassMutual Life subsidiaries to create Barings, a $345 billion money manager. That s why when he entered SPAC land, investors took notice. SPAC investor Julian Klymochko, who manages the Accelerate Arbitrage Fund (TSX: ARB), said his ETF subscribed to the ADRA IPO because he believes that Finke s background and experience in financial services make him a strong SPAC sponsor. ....