Stocks & Storage: Demystifying Finance Jargon, One Acronym at a Time

Now that Backblaze [BLZE] is a public company, our team has been wrestling with lots of new Wall Street jargon: IPO, EBITDA, EPS—yes, these all mean things. And if you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I’d like to learn more about publicly traded companies,” or “I wonder what these tech earnings reports really mean,” only to be hit by a wall of acronyms like these when you try to do a little research: You’re not alone.

We figured, if these are going to be part of our lives now, why not share our growing understanding with you?

Enter: Stocks & Storage

This new video blog for average folks interested in investing in tech stocks. In this series, Yev Pusin, resident storage expert, and James Kisner, certified finance geek, will demystify the lingo that Wall Street and cloud storage businesses use to report on how and what they’re doing.

  • Their main goal: Simplify what should be simple.
  • Their secondary goal: Don’t be boring!

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About James Kisner

James Kisner is the former VP of Investor Relations and Corporate Development for Backblaze, and his professional passion is explaining compelling technology stories to investors. He has an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and is a Charted Financial Analyst (CFA). Prior to his investor relations career, he spent 12 years covering technology companies for major investment banks. When he's not building financial stories, James is pursuing his interests in martial arts, playing piano, writing, as well as spending time with his wife, Thalia, and four children, James, Justin, Franco, and Julia.