Tech: Tencent Music's $25B IPO
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2018
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
One of the biggest tech IPOs is on hold... for now. But investors shouldn't have to wait too long to see shares of Tencent hit the market, so on this episode, we break down China's streaming music giant: how it makes money, how it is similar (and different) than Spotify, and why we think the stock could be a winner.
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| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that goes into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:25.0 | It is Friday, October 12th, we're talking about one of the biggest tech IPOs of 2018 and why investors are going to have to wait just a little bit longer for it. |
| 0:33.2 | I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I'm joined on Skype by senior tech specialist |
| 0:36.8 | Evan New. Evan what's up? Not too much. We have done a lot of shows on the blank of China. |
| 0:45.8 | We have another business that we are going to be talking about today that fits that bill, |
| 0:50.3 | and that is 10 cent music. |
| 0:56.6 | Right, so you could call it Spotify China, but you could also call it the Twitch of China, so both kind of, you know, fit that, you know, fit that fun little of China. |
| 1:01.2 | And, and... You allude to that there. fun little of China. of China. And... |
| 1:03.0 | And... And... |
| 1:04.0 | You allude to that there. |
| 1:05.0 | There's kind of a hybrid business model that we'll get into. |
| 1:07.4 | Some of it is going to be very familiar to people that follow Spotify and the streaming music |
| 1:11.6 | space. Some of it is going to be very familiar to people that follow the Twitch and gaming space here, |
| 1:17.0 | but it is a fun one for us. |
| 1:19.0 | This is a company that was supposed to be going public relatively soon. |
| 1:22.0 | More on that later, those plans have changed. that was supposed to be going public relatively soon. |
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