> From the investors' side, SPACs are popular because they've been really successful! I don't have stats on this but just buying SPACs surely outperformed any i

> From the investors' side, SPACs are popular because they've been really successful! I don't have stats on this but just buying SPACs surely outperformed any index in the last 5 years. According to Goldman Sachs, SPACs actually underperform traditional IPOs and the market after their merger. Source: https://www.barrons.com/articles/spacs-performance-ipo-merger-goldman-sachs-analysis-russell-2000-51596562450 https://www.barrons.com/articles/spacs-performance-ipo-merge...