Consumer IPOs from Snap to Uber have been disappointing and serve as a reminder that private investors are making all the money.
Of course, it's still too soon to come to any conclusions about where Uber, Lyft and others will be trading months or years down the line. Investors can point tomiserable kickoff in May 2012, and the fact that it lost half its value over the next three months before rebounding. Now shareholders who bought in at the IPO and held have seen their investments quintuple.
With the latest crop of consumer offerings, public investors are being asked to pick up where the venture community left off and continue to subsidize cash-burning growth while the companies seek to prove they can morph into sustainable long-term businesses. Investors are balking. "The big lesson everybody in Silicon Valley learned is unit economics really do matter," Davidson said.There's still little pressure for start-ups to change their approach because private capital is so plentiful. SoftBank's Vision Fund, which has poured billions into Uber,
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