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Finance a la shmoop... what is a roadshow? think about the rhymes IPO Roadshow....

but the two terms are lines from a sweet sweet poem if you're an investment banker as part [Poem of investment banking book appears]

of your firms job you'll take management of whatever company is going public or

raising capital in whatever form on what is called a roadshow, they'll go on the

road traveling all over the country and all around the world like they're a

vaudeville act singing crazy songs and showing men in dresses and wearing hats [Man in a pink dress and a blonde wig]

that was a thing back then that was entertainment sorry, just keeping it

real with the sales people banging a drum [Boy walking in the woods banging a drum]

about how awesome this new hair growth formula is they'll attract investors on

their Roadshow from all over the country maybe all over the world and they'll

point out how much need there is for hair around the world..

Yeah and they'll also bang a [Dwayne Johnson appears from a door]

tambourine and sing about how much the stock could go up next the next few

years yeah they'll do that and there's a PowerPoint presentation deck on this

road show lots of numbers traded among financial analysts for stock brokers and

money managers analysts to all chew on and that Roadshow continues almost like [Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump on stage]

an election with a final tally on the day the shares are placed and the cash

changes hands and a new public company is born...

let's just hope someone remembered to you know pack the diapers