一定要認識：改變產業的新興上市公司

進入本文前，請先想想以下單字：

a) 下台

b) 買進 (股票)

c) 共識

1. Yelp

Review site Yelp was founded to help people find great local businesses like dentists, hair stylists, mechanics and restaurants, based on the reviews people posted. It was launched in 2004 by former PayPal engineers Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman, after a conversation about why it was so hard to find a good doctor. Though Simmons a) stepped down from the company in 2010, Stoppelman continues to 1) keep a tight rein on things. "This company is my identity," Stoppelman says. "I know how and why it was built in the first place and I know where to take it in the future."

點評網站Yelp讓人根據大眾的評論，找到當地好的牙醫，髮型師，技工和餐廳等。創立於2004年。兩位PayPal的前任工程師Russel Simmons和Jeremy Stoppelman，聊起好醫生有多難找後，決定打造Yelp。2010年Simmons離開公司，Stoppelman則繼續管理公司大小事務。「這家公司就代表我，」Stoppelman說，「我知道它為何而生，也知道怎麼帶他走向未來。」

2. GrubHub

The popular online platform lets customers order food online from local restaurants. Founded in 2004, today GrubHub processes orders for 30,000 restaurants in 800 cities. GrubHub went public in April 2014. And investors love how the company's original business model remains largely intact. "When the business model is complicated, it's much harder to explain that value to investors and makes them less likely to b) buy in," Malone says.

廣受歡迎GrubHub網站讓客戶在網上訂購當地餐館的餐點，公司成立於2004年，如今GrubHub處理800個城市裡30000間餐廳的訂單。GrubHub在2014年4月上市，投資者喜歡此公司仍然完整如初的原有經營模式，創始者之一Matt Maloney說：「如果商業模式是複雜的，就很難向投資者解釋公司價值，投資者更不想買進。」