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> Wow, this is a torrent of IPOs today. Investors / boards are wanting to get money out before things turn south I feel. People have been saying this for month
by danaur 6y ago
> Wow, this is a torrent of IPOs today. Investors / boards are wanting to get money out before things turn south I feel.
People have been saying this for months now. Is there evidence that there are disproportionally more IPOs recently?
- natrik 6y agoSnowflake, SumoLogic, Asana, Unity all filed S-1's today. 4 relatively large, well known companies filing IPO's today.
- ummonk 6y agoAnd AirBnB is much earlier in the process but has filed confidentially.
- seattle_spring 6y agoIf Airbnb filed their S-1 last week, and these companies filed their S-1s today, then wouldn't Airbnb be further along in the process and not "much earlier"?
- ummonk 6y agoThey filed confidential paperwork - the actual public S-1 will come months later. E.g. Asana had confidentially filed back in February.
- the_jeremy 6y agoand JFrog (I don't know anything about them, but the S-1 was posted on HN today).
- ummonk 6y agoHave they? This is the first time I've noticed a surge of IPOs this year.
- dx034 6y agoMaybe a surge in IPOs for HN crowd? An IPO of a construction company won't make the front page but Asana does. Maybe VCs increase pressure to cash out or management is motivated by other successful IPOs of the recent past. I don't know any hard evidence to say if overall IPOs increased but the examples named in this thread are very biased towards tech.