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To be fair, I don't think anyone missed the initial IPO, given that roughly half the stories on HN at the time were about how terrible an investment it would be
by pseudonym 14y ago
To be fair, I don't think anyone missed the initial IPO, given that roughly half the stories on HN at the time were about how terrible an investment it would be.
I imagine that if they had to pull and re-file their IPO (not being a follower of stocks, I don't actually know that to be the case), their re-entry into the market was most likely a little more...quiet, shame-faced and chastised, as it were.
- druiid 14y agoLikely I'm just remembering the chain of events incorrectly then! But either way, yeah... that was a boat I saw along with the rest of the tech community that was trying to bail water as quickly as it was coming in.