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The offering has captured the attention of investors from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, as CoreWeave represents the first pure-play AI IPO and the largest tech debut in the U.S. in four years. The IPO market has been largely shut since the end of 2021, as the tech industry reckoned with rising inflation and interest rates. Research data from Jay Ritter informs this story from CNBC.
The offering has captured the attention of investors from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, as CoreWeave represents the first pure-play AI IPO and the largest tech debut in the U.S. in four years. The IPO market has been largely shut since the end of 2021, as the tech industry reckoned with rising inflation and interest rates. Research data from Jay Ritter informs this story.
CoreWeave, a hotly anticipated initial public offering, priced on Thursday below its range, at $40 a share for a valuation of $23 billion, raising some $1.5 billion, well below earlier expectations. Jay Ritter shares his insight on the debut.
Widely misunderstood, blockchain technology and cryptoassets are often wrongly associated with anarchy and upheaval, explains Associate Professor Fahad Saleh in this column from the Tampa Bay Times.
Jay Ritter comments on Tesla’s fallen stock in recent weeks, with members of the board and an executive at Elon Musk’s company selling off millions of dollars in stock, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Together, four top officers at the company have offloaded over $100 million in shares since early February.
The percentage of startups profitable at IPO time has steadily declined since the 1980s and most valuable ones take longer to become profitable, according to insights from Jay Ritter.
The University of Florida Warrington College of Business is proud to honor David Rattner (MSRE ’03) as the Bergstrom Real Estate Center’s Alumnus of the Year. Rattner is the President of Blue Sky Holdings, a real estate and development firm that focuses on retail and multi-family properties nationwide which he launched in 2008. He has developed strong, reliable relationships with the industry’s top real estate managers and brokers and holds
One garage sale became a turning point for Lauren Kurtz (BSBA Finance ’27). In late 2019, her family sold a variety of items out of their garage. At the time, Kurtz thought it might’ve been easier to list things online. “Right at the garage sale, I listed two or three items and one of them immediately sold,” Kurtz said. After that, she started selling Funko Pops and other items around
The University of Florida Warrington College of Business’s Full-Time MBA program is among the nation’s top 10 public programs as well as the best overall for career services and value, according to the “2025 Global MBA Ranking” from Financial Times. “The continued recognition of our career services and value of the entire experience demonstrates what we consistently see in our alumni outcomes – that our program delivers exceptional return on
