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GoodRx Shares Tumble but CEO Says he Never Looks at Stock Price: ‘If I Did, I Would Jump out this Window’

By all accounts, Santa Monica-based GoodRx delivered a strong first quarter as a public company. Year-over-year revenue beat analyst expectations, soaring 38%. Monthly active users increased a robust 29%. As the pandemic continued to rage across the United States, a record 4.9 million consumers used GoodRx to fill prescriptions.

"I think across the board I was really happy," said co-founder and CEO Doug Hirsch.

But Wall Street was not as pleased, with the stock closing down more than 6%. After mostly zigzagging since their September debut, shares now trade near where they did the first day of trading.

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'Take Any Metric': GoodRx CEO on Inequality in US Healthcare

Ten years ago, GoodRx CEO Doug Hirsch walked into a pharmacy on Wilshire Boulevard with a prescription that would've cost him $500.

"It seemed outrageous," he said on Tuesday during a wide ranging discussion with dot.LA managing editor Rachel Uranga at the dot.LA Summit.

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GoodRx Shares Soar 50% on Wall Street Debut

Prescription discount GoodRx shares skyrocketed more than 50% in its Wall Street debut on Wednesday. Shares started trading under the symbol "GDRX" at an IPO pricing of $33 each but quickly rose landing at $50.50 per share at market close.

GoodRx is the first Los Angeles tech company to go public this year and follows a wave of other tech companies that have recently gone public, including Unity and Snowflake.

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