{"id":107141,"date":"2022-11-03T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/?p=107141"},"modified":"2025-07-20T05:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:26:27","slug":"stocks-storage-demystifying-finance-jargon-one-acronym-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/stocks-storage-demystifying-finance-jargon-one-acronym-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks & Storage: Demystifying Finance Jargon, One Acronym at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now that Backblaze [BLZE<\/a>] is a public company, our team has been wrestling with lots of new Wall Street jargon: IPO, EBITDA, EPS\u2014yes, these all mean things. And if you\u2019ve ever thought to yourself, \u201cI\u2019d like to learn more about publicly traded companies,\u201d or \u201cI wonder what these tech earnings reports really mean,\u201d only to be hit by a wall of acronyms like these when you try to do a little research: You\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n

We figured, if these are going to be part of our lives now, why not share our growing understanding with you?<\/p>\n

Enter: Stocks & Storage<\/h2>\n

This new video blog for average folks interested in investing in tech stocks. In this series, Yev Pusin<\/a>, resident storage expert, and James Kisner<\/a>, certified finance geek, will demystify the lingo that Wall Street and cloud storage businesses use to report on how and what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n