This Week in Pre-IPO Stocks

E130: Revolut $40b val, +75% from current 2ndary valuation; Cerebras AI chips IPO; no IPO for Stripe; $100b from SoftBank to AI companies; + X Payments, Starlink Mini, new Anthropic AI model, HeyGen $60m raise

June 21, 2024 AG Dillon & Co Episode 130
E130: Revolut $40b val, +75% from current 2ndary valuation; Cerebras AI chips IPO; no IPO for Stripe; $100b from SoftBank to AI companies; + X Payments, Starlink Mini, new Anthropic AI model, HeyGen $60m raise
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This Week in Pre-IPO Stocks
E130: Revolut $40b val, +75% from current 2ndary valuation; Cerebras AI chips IPO; no IPO for Stripe; $100b from SoftBank to AI companies; + X Payments, Starlink Mini, new Anthropic AI model, HeyGen $60m raise
Jun 21, 2024 Episode 130
AG Dillon & Co

Pre-IPO stock valuations = www.x.com/aarongdillon (see pinned post)
Pre-IPO stock index fact sheet = www.agdillon.com/index
Pre-IPO stock funds = www.agdillon.com/funds

00:06 | No IPOs for Stripe
- Online payments company
- Stripe co-founder, John Collison; Stripe will continue to do tenders in the future
- Two tenders in the last two years, perhaps one tender a year?
- Tender offers = no IPO on the horizon
- $76b secondary market valuation, +16% vs its last round in Feb 2024

01:03 | X as “everything app”
- X Payments being stood up now
- Approved in 28 states, aims to be live by Dec 2024
- X Payments will compete with Venmo, Cash App, Zelle
- No crypto
- Fidelity has X at a $12.5b valuation, ballpark 3x-4x revenue multiple
- Payments are foundational to be an everything app, we believe an X App Store is next

02:40 | Starlink Mini launched
- Starlink Mini is a compact version of standard satellite internet antenna
- Weighs 2lbs, 12x10x1.5 inches in size
- $599 for mini antenna, $150/month service fee
- Starlink has 6,000 satellites in orbit, 3m customers in 100 countries
- $192b secondary market valuation, +7% vs its last round in Jan 2024 … $200b tender announced expected to close late summer

03:55 | Cerebras AI chip IPO
- Hired Citigroup to lead IPO
- 2H 2024 for listing
- $4b+ IPO valuation, above last round in 2021

04:36 | SoftBank’s $100b for AI companies
- Goal is to deliver “artificial super-intelligence”, or ASI
- SoftBank owns Arm, AI chip maker
- SoftBank activity in the VC market led to the inflated valuations in 2021, could same happen now in AI ecosystem

05:17 | New Anthropic AI model
- AI large language model company
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet launching
- 2x as fast as Claude 3 Sonnet; excels in coding, text-based reasoning vs OpenAI GPT-4o
- Enterprise pricing = $3 per million tokens fed into the model, $15 per million tokens generated
- $1b 2024 revenue forecast
- $21b secondary market valuation, +18% vs its last round in Jan 2024

06:21 | HeyGen raised $60m
- AI-driven video content company
- $500m valuation
- Product = upload video of yourself, photorealistic avatar created, upload transcript, AI avatars reads as if you, translate to 40+ languages
- $24/month subscription fee
- 40,000 customers
- $35m ARR in 2023
- HeyGen builds on top of OpenAI and ElevenLabs (“last mile” AI app)

08:10 | Revolut tender at $40b!
- Morgan Stanley to bank tender offer
- $500m raise
- £1.7 billion 2023 revenue, +84% vs 2022
- $23b secondary market valuation, -31% vs its last primary round in Jul 2021
- Recent secondary market buyers stand to make a quick +75% return if $40b valuation holds

09:30 | Pre-IPO -1.07% for week, +65.20% for last 1yr
- Up week: Chime +22.3%, CoreWeave +19.3%, Wiz +13.1%, Cohere +11.3%, Scale AI +8.8%
- Down week: OpenAI -5.5%, Epic Games -4.0%, Deel -2.9%, Bytedance -2.1%, Notion -1.9%
- Top valuations: ByteDance $292b, SpaceX $191b, OpenAI $104b, Stripe $76b, Databricks $43b

10:27 | 2024 Pre-IPO Stock Vintage Index week performance
- www.agdillon.com/index for fact sheet pdf
- 2024 Vintage Index top contributors since inception: Rippling +106%, Revolut +52%, Epic Games +44%, Klarna +43%, Anduril +27%
- Key metric averages for all Vintage Indexes 5 years old or older…
3.31 distributed paid in capital
2.05 residual value to paid in capital
5.36 total value to paid in capital
4.1 years to return the fund

Show Notes

Pre-IPO stock valuations = www.x.com/aarongdillon (see pinned post)
Pre-IPO stock index fact sheet = www.agdillon.com/index
Pre-IPO stock funds = www.agdillon.com/funds

00:06 | No IPOs for Stripe
- Online payments company
- Stripe co-founder, John Collison; Stripe will continue to do tenders in the future
- Two tenders in the last two years, perhaps one tender a year?
- Tender offers = no IPO on the horizon
- $76b secondary market valuation, +16% vs its last round in Feb 2024

01:03 | X as “everything app”
- X Payments being stood up now
- Approved in 28 states, aims to be live by Dec 2024
- X Payments will compete with Venmo, Cash App, Zelle
- No crypto
- Fidelity has X at a $12.5b valuation, ballpark 3x-4x revenue multiple
- Payments are foundational to be an everything app, we believe an X App Store is next

02:40 | Starlink Mini launched
- Starlink Mini is a compact version of standard satellite internet antenna
- Weighs 2lbs, 12x10x1.5 inches in size
- $599 for mini antenna, $150/month service fee
- Starlink has 6,000 satellites in orbit, 3m customers in 100 countries
- $192b secondary market valuation, +7% vs its last round in Jan 2024 … $200b tender announced expected to close late summer

03:55 | Cerebras AI chip IPO
- Hired Citigroup to lead IPO
- 2H 2024 for listing
- $4b+ IPO valuation, above last round in 2021

04:36 | SoftBank’s $100b for AI companies
- Goal is to deliver “artificial super-intelligence”, or ASI
- SoftBank owns Arm, AI chip maker
- SoftBank activity in the VC market led to the inflated valuations in 2021, could same happen now in AI ecosystem

05:17 | New Anthropic AI model
- AI large language model company
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet launching
- 2x as fast as Claude 3 Sonnet; excels in coding, text-based reasoning vs OpenAI GPT-4o
- Enterprise pricing = $3 per million tokens fed into the model, $15 per million tokens generated
- $1b 2024 revenue forecast
- $21b secondary market valuation, +18% vs its last round in Jan 2024

06:21 | HeyGen raised $60m
- AI-driven video content company
- $500m valuation
- Product = upload video of yourself, photorealistic avatar created, upload transcript, AI avatars reads as if you, translate to 40+ languages
- $24/month subscription fee
- 40,000 customers
- $35m ARR in 2023
- HeyGen builds on top of OpenAI and ElevenLabs (“last mile” AI app)

08:10 | Revolut tender at $40b!
- Morgan Stanley to bank tender offer
- $500m raise
- £1.7 billion 2023 revenue, +84% vs 2022
- $23b secondary market valuation, -31% vs its last primary round in Jul 2021
- Recent secondary market buyers stand to make a quick +75% return if $40b valuation holds

09:30 | Pre-IPO -1.07% for week, +65.20% for last 1yr
- Up week: Chime +22.3%, CoreWeave +19.3%, Wiz +13.1%, Cohere +11.3%, Scale AI +8.8%
- Down week: OpenAI -5.5%, Epic Games -4.0%, Deel -2.9%, Bytedance -2.1%, Notion -1.9%
- Top valuations: ByteDance $292b, SpaceX $191b, OpenAI $104b, Stripe $76b, Databricks $43b

10:27 | 2024 Pre-IPO Stock Vintage Index week performance
- www.agdillon.com/index for fact sheet pdf
- 2024 Vintage Index top contributors since inception: Rippling +106%, Revolut +52%, Epic Games +44%, Klarna +43%, Anduril +27%
- Key metric averages for all Vintage Indexes 5 years old or older…
3.31 distributed paid in capital
2.05 residual value to paid in capital
5.36 total value to paid in capital
4.1 years to return the fund