Allbirds IPO: Five times the company kicked on

Allbirds IPO: Five times the company kicked on
Allbirds founders Joey Zwillinger (left) and Tim Brown. (Image: Allbirds)
Henry Burrell
Another week, another New Zealand-found company destined for an American listing, as Allbirds readies itself to hit the Nasdaq.OK, so Allbirds is a registered American company, and its popularity has been driven by its wild success in the hallways of hundreds of Silicon Valley startups and at the parties of Hollywood stars. But take co-founder and ex-All White Tim Brown and add in the company’s partial reliance on finest NZ merino, and who can really say Allbirds isn’t Kiwi at heart?It looks set to join Rocket Lab as a company with...

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