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raw_anon_1111last Saturday at 3:12 AM3 repliesview on HN

And the few that have gone public have done awful

https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...


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jmalickilast Saturday at 5:18 AM

Most of the bad ones IPOd in 2021, when there was a huge overvaluation of speculative tech companies... Marking performance since IPO is also a bit weird since it's kind of arbitrary date in the firm's history.

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ViscountPenguinlast Saturday at 4:12 AM

It's surprising to me that investors have been so wrong about combinator IPOs. I wonder if this has been driven my retail, or by the expectation of a small probability of enormous success.

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catlifeonmarslast Saturday at 3:37 AM

Is going public the ultimate goal of every startup?

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