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An IPO is simply a funding event. A unique, extraordinarily rigorous one, but a funding event nonetheless. The funds are raised for a purpose. The goals are usu
by askafriend 8y ago
An IPO is simply a funding event. A unique, extraordinarily rigorous one, but a funding event nonetheless. The funds are raised for a purpose. The goals are usually laid out in the prospectus the company puts together for the public.
And IPO is nothing more and nothing less. It is a point in the overall journey, but the journalistic myopia around it makes it seem like some kind of end in and of itself. It is not.