Diana Rosera-Pena

Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Diana Rosera-Pena says people are doing it for the gram. There seems to be that pride, like showing what you made and for inspiration as well. So I would say this is a trend that's probably going to last a little while. The scratch cooking trend is a bright spot for Campbell's. Two things that brought the company's sales down. People bought fewer salty snacks last quarter and less of what the company calls eating soups. You know, the ones that don't go in casseroles. I'm Stephanie Hughes for Marketplace.

Marketplace's Kaylee Wells explains what's going on. How anyone could turn a profit on AOL actually is pretty simple to Rita McGrath at Columbia Business School, because she's got an AOL email herself. If you're still on AOL, chances are there's some idiosyncratic thing you get from them. I have a bunch of friends who are on AOL because it's the throwaway email that they give to their shopping sites. But the contents of their spam boxes is treasure, because there is a lot of information in there that bending spoons can sell.

Nordstrom tietää, että minä olen AOL-järjestelmä, mutta nyt AOL tietää, että minä olen Nordstrom-järjestelmä. Tuo info ei ollut tarpeeksi arvoisa AOL-järjestelmälle yksin, tai monille muille yrityksille, joita Bending Spoons saavuttaa. Joten nimeni on kutsut ja konsolidaatio. Sinun tarvitset vain yhden CFO. Sinun tarvitset vain yhden puheenjohtajan. Analyst Roger Entner on suunnittelija Recon Analyticsin. Hän sanoo, että ryhmä, joka toimii yhdellä markkinaa yhdessä, liittyy vähemmän tuotantomuuton.

You can have a very efficient sales force when you are one large company instead of a significant number of small companies. And a lot of companies that Bending Spoons buys up have sticky, loyal subscriber bases. Think Columbia's Rita McGrath and her AOL account. If Bending Spoons wants to keep buying companies like that, it needs capital. That is where the IPO comes in.

They are trying to feed the acquisition machine. Forrest Conner is an analyst at Gartner. They want to find more businesses, expand this model that has been their ethos from the beginning. And so what they're looking to do is continue that on a larger scale. Plus, amid the AI boom, selling data is profitable. The company's revenue last quarter is more than double what it posted a year earlier. I'm Kaylee Wells for Marketplace.