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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Can San Francisco handle more millionaires as several startups go public?

In Silicon Valley, some of the world’s biggest startups are going public. Uber already went public last week. Lyft goes public on Thursday. Slack, Postmates, Pinterest, and Airbnb are following suit in the coming weeks.

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By Madeleine Brand • Mar 27, 2019 • 1 min read

In Silicon Valley, some of the world’s biggest startups are going public. Uber already went public last week. Lyft goes public on Thursday. Slack, Postmates, Pinterest, and Airbnb are following suit in the coming weeks. That means hundreds of billions of dollars will flood into San Francisco in the next year, creating thousands of new millionaires.

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