Will BitTorrent be the next big IPO?
After Google’s IPO in 2004, nothing similar happened on the stock market. Even close. The public is waiting for the repetition of that fabulous IPO. Analysts are trying to predict who this will happen to. It is believed that the tranquility of the market can disrupt the company BitTorrent, which opened an online store. Thanks to the unique P2P technology, the BitTorrent store gains an important advantage over all competitors because it can deliver files 10–50% faster.
The developer of BitTorrent technology, a brilliant programmer and antisocial autist Bram Cohen, is trying hard to build a legitimate business. Since Cohen himself is not able to communicate normally with people, he invited the enterprising merchant Ashwin Navin to conduct business and negotiations. The company recently received venture financing, entered into licensing agreements with major Hollywood studios and opened an official store of licensed content.
Thus, BitTorrent "split": on the one hand, it is the most popular P2P protocol, which transfers a huge amount of pirated content (up to half of all traffic on the Internet), and on the other hand, it is a legal company that cooperates with Hollywood studios. At the same time, a protocol with dozens of third-party client programs exists completely independently of the company that generated it. Oddly enough, but BitTorrent and its new partners are not in a hurry to cover up this mess. The fact is that they can use a multimillion audience for their own purposes, namely, to increase their assessment before the IPO.
According to the BitTorrent management, 135 million people have downloaded their program, and the real audience exceeds 30 million active users. These people are invited to be considered as potential buyers of licensed content.
')
The online store that opened a month ago can bring BitTorrent to hundreds of millions of dollars. But this is not the only potential source of income. Soon the company is going to release a corporate version of a peer-to-peer network called BitTorrent DNA. This development has already entered testing in some commercial companies. In the future, the company can earn very good money on licensing.
BitTorrent has not yet announced its intention to go public. What are the chances that she will decide on this? The odds are pretty big. Analysts point out that the content delivery network via the Internet Limelight Networks has just announced its upcoming IPO. This can be a good test. If the issue of shares is successful, then BitTorrent may very soon follow the example of a competitor.
Another good sign for BitTorrent is the general boom in the content delivery network (CDN) market. Akamai shares are growing by leaps and bounds. A whole new generation of CDNs appeared. These are signs that the market is ripe for the next big IPO.
via CNNMoney
The developer of BitTorrent technology, a brilliant programmer and antisocial autist Bram Cohen, is trying hard to build a legitimate business. Since Cohen himself is not able to communicate normally with people, he invited the enterprising merchant Ashwin Navin to conduct business and negotiations. The company recently received venture financing, entered into licensing agreements with major Hollywood studios and opened an official store of licensed content.
Thus, BitTorrent "split": on the one hand, it is the most popular P2P protocol, which transfers a huge amount of pirated content (up to half of all traffic on the Internet), and on the other hand, it is a legal company that cooperates with Hollywood studios. At the same time, a protocol with dozens of third-party client programs exists completely independently of the company that generated it. Oddly enough, but BitTorrent and its new partners are not in a hurry to cover up this mess. The fact is that they can use a multimillion audience for their own purposes, namely, to increase their assessment before the IPO.
According to the BitTorrent management, 135 million people have downloaded their program, and the real audience exceeds 30 million active users. These people are invited to be considered as potential buyers of licensed content.
')
The online store that opened a month ago can bring BitTorrent to hundreds of millions of dollars. But this is not the only potential source of income. Soon the company is going to release a corporate version of a peer-to-peer network called BitTorrent DNA. This development has already entered testing in some commercial companies. In the future, the company can earn very good money on licensing.
BitTorrent has not yet announced its intention to go public. What are the chances that she will decide on this? The odds are pretty big. Analysts point out that the content delivery network via the Internet Limelight Networks has just announced its upcoming IPO. This can be a good test. If the issue of shares is successful, then BitTorrent may very soon follow the example of a competitor.
Another good sign for BitTorrent is the general boom in the content delivery network (CDN) market. Akamai shares are growing by leaps and bounds. A whole new generation of CDNs appeared. These are signs that the market is ripe for the next big IPO.
via CNNMoney
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/5963/
All Articles