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Casper’s S-1 Is the Story of a Good Company in a Bad Business

Casper will only win if its IPO goes so badly that it drives its competitors out of the marketplace forever

Byrne Hobart
Marker
Published in
10 min readJan 13, 2020

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Philip Krim, co-founder and CEO of Casper. Photo: Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images

AAnother venture-funded company is going public, so it’s time for another round of extremely value-added commentary like “This…

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Byrne Hobart
Marker
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