Fintech Startup Acorns to Go Public in $2 Billion SPAC Deal

The Wall Street Journal2021-05-28

Combination with Pioneer Merger Corp., related private placement to bring Acorns more than $450 million. Acorns CEO Noah Kerner said he planned to contribute 10% of his personal stake in the company ...

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S071
2021-05-28
S071
So many
Charlene_Wee
2021-05-28
Charlene_Wee
Sounds good
- Jayden_Mok:
  good
Evelynnnpeng
2021-05-28
Evelynnnpeng
So many fintech
- CPY91:
  Sofi!
- ckww:
  Yeah... Will we end up in a tech bubble happened decades ago??
hkwan
2021-05-28
hkwan
too many spacs. come nov 2022, stock mkt is gona explode w loads of charlatans
BruceLyy
2021-05-28
BruceLyy
Interesting
cactuspot
2021-05-28
cactuspot
Comment and like exchange!
- Jon000:
  Ok Please do :)
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Will we end up in a tech bubble <u>happened</u> decades ago??","text":"Yeah... Will we end up in a tech bubble <u>happened</u> decades ago??","html":"Yeah... Will we end up in a tech bubble <u>happened</u> decades ago??"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":135260647,"gmtCreate":1622165468189,"gmtModify":1704180668667,"author":{"id":"3572473945197433","authorId":"3572473945197433","name":"hkwan","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/77e90a3687fc7bea68ab1062dc6f91d0","vip":1,"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"too many spacs. come nov 2022, stock mkt is gona explode w loads of charlatans&nbsp;","listText":"too many spacs. come nov 2022, stock mkt is gona explode w loads of charlatans&nbsp;","text":"too many spacs. come nov 2022, stock mkt is gona explode w loads of charlatans","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/135260647","repostId":1188024086,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":135260312,"gmtCreate":1622165445036,"gmtModify":1704180668183,"author":{"id":"3581945658596754","authorId":"3581945658596754","name":"BruceLyy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f6ddb500d252a42653a15b13d42f82ae","vip":1,"hat":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b073a07f77dbe6b3bec6b12311fde6bd","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":1},"htmlText":"Interesting","listText":"Interesting","text":"Interesting","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/135260312","repostId":1188024086,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":135286539,"gmtCreate":1622165322421,"gmtModify":1704180661719,"author":{"id":"3581837078692589","authorId":"3581837078692589","name":"cactuspot","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/94c3a8704d6c2ece9fce2b814d8c533a","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Comment and like exchange!","listText":"Comment and like exchange!","text":"Comment and like exchange!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/135286539","repostId":1188024086,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":4478366,"gmtCreate":1622165521504,"gmtModify":1680791475226,"authorId":3574488501440064,"author":{"id":3574488501440064,"authorId":3574488501440064,"name":"Jon000","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/31d8b0b435484918436ab24cf32410e7","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":135286539,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"Ok Please do :)","text":"Ok Please do :)","html":"Ok Please do :)"},{"id":4478382,"gmtCreate":1622165559293,"gmtModify":1680791471221,"authorId":3581837078692589,"author":{"id":3581837078692589,"authorId":3581837078692589,"name":"cactuspot","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/94c3a8704d6c2ece9fce2b814d8c533a","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be-3","templateUuid":"972123088c9646f7b6091ae0662215be","name":"Legendary Trader","description":"Total number of securities or futures transactions reached 300","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/656db16598a0b8f21429e10d6c1cb033","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/03f10910d4dd9234f9b5702a3342193a","grayImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/0c767e35268feb729d50d3fa9a386c5a","redirectLinkEnabled":0,"hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2021.12.21","exceedPercentage":"93.88%","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":1100},"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":135286539,"type":1,"supId":4478366,"prevId":0,"content":"replied","text":"replied","html":"replied"}],"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":68,"commentSize":11,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.24.2","shortVersion":"4.24.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1188024086"}