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0 pointscmiles89d ago0 comments

True, although even here there likely aren’t enough retail suckers to go around given the amount of initial investment folks need to cash in. Thats the challenge when you have so much crazy pre-IPO cash pumped in.

After you float you still need to sell all those shares at the valuations you want to exit. If they floated say 10% of shares to go public and the price tanks everyone else trying to exit loses their shirt so it’s not a magic exit for the early investors.

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Ekaros9d ago

The size of these companies make be doubtful of retail being able to fund them. There being enough retail investors with enough liquid funds who are willing to jump on this.

Lot of retail is in various funds. So those doing active management to scale of this is questionable. And then you most likely also have downward pressure for those that try to bet against these IPOs...

FartyMcFarter9d ago

There's always the Softbanks of the world.

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newsclues8d ago

Boomers are the perfect suckers at this point

My boomer mom is the kind of person who just heard about AI and would get IPO fomo

close048d ago

Older people are always a good target for any scams. With age their mental acuity drops and they also have diminishing importance in society as sad as that sounds. They are not just easier but also safer targets for the scammers. Authorities don't bend over backwards to help when the victims are old people with no leverage left.

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