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Matt Levine has written about the Spotify direct listing in a few of his Money Stuff columns. Overall he seems to think it will be a really interesting experim
by jartelt 9y ago
Matt Levine has written about the Spotify direct listing in a few of his Money Stuff columns. Overall he seems to think it will be a really interesting experiment given that no one is sure how it will play out. Another point he makes is that Spotify is still paying investment bankers a bunch of money despite the fact that it is not IPO-ing. Even when you try to avoid paying bankers a bunch of money by skipping the IPO, you end up paying bankers a bunch of money...
- rattray 9y agoIs this the link? https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-21/your-ipo-can-t-fail-if-it-s-not-an-ipo https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-21/your-ipo-...
- jartelt 9y agoThat is one. Here are a couple others: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-20/trading-is-a-good-way-to-set-a-price https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-20/trading-i... https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-04/spotify-s-non-ipo-really-is-novel https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-04/spotify-s... https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-16/spotify-will-pay-banks-to-cut-out-the-banks https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-16/spotify-w...