casper – The Musings of the Big Red Car https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com 53 years and 204,000 miles of business, CEO, leadership, startup, political, military wisdom Tue, 11 Feb 2020 02:19:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 Casper — CSPR — The Unfriendly Mattress Company https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/casper-cspr-the-unfriendly-mattress-company/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=casper-cspr-the-unfriendly-mattress-company Tue, 11 Feb 2020 02:19:59 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=8727 So, Casper — CSPR NYSE — got public at a value that is a meaningful  discount to the last venture money valuation. Still, they got public. The IPO went through some birth canal stress, exiting as a skinnier version of its most recent $1.2B private value. It is currently showing a public market cap of […]

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]]> Casper, The Non-Unicorn Mattress Company https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/casper-the-non-unicorn-mattress-company/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=casper-the-non-unicorn-mattress-company Wed, 29 Jan 2020 15:40:17 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=8688 Comes once again our dear friends from Casper the mattress company. You will recall we wrote about them here: The Casper IPO IQ Test wherein we cast some shade on the impending unicorn — $1B market cap post IPO — value of Casper. Now, it appears that the market is smarter than we thought at […]

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]]> The Casper IPO IQ Test https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/the-casper-ipo-iq-test/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-casper-ipo-iq-test Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:33:51 +0000 https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=8656 After a blood bath with the failed WeWork, the IPO market is coming back for another IQ test — how stupid are you? This is not a drill. Comes hither our sleepy friends Casper, the mattress folks. Casper isn’t spooked by IPO woes Could investors ghost the Casper IPO? Spooky. Basic facts, please, Big Red […]

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]]> Mattresses – the Sleeping Edge of the Internet https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/mattresses-the-sleeping-edge-of-the-internet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mattresses-the-sleeping-edge-of-the-internet Thu, 09 Aug 2018 14:29:08 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=6605 Mattresses, Big Red Car? Really? OK, so there are powerful forces at work here, but, first, we need a nap. A nice refreshing nap. Mattresses are a symptom of several interesting things:  1. Mattresses are symptomatic of how the Internet is wrecking “bricks & mortar” retail.  2. Mattresses are symptomatic of how the Internet is […]

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