IPO Pricing
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
Top Founders
the a16z Podcast
20VC
3 statements about IPO Pricing, every show
A first-day IPO stock pop is not a sign of bad pricing
“Yeah, there's gonna, you're gonna read articles that say, like, oh, the pop on day one, like, that just means you, like, did a bad job of pricing your IPO. It's not really true. Like, we had the best advisors, the best people around the table on this. You don'…”
Levy argued with Steve Jobs to underprice Pixar's IPO
“Well, I would say that the pricing of an IPO on the financial side of a company is one of the most important decisions that it will make. And this was also a point of contention between Steve and I about how to price it. I, my thinking about it was that it's i…”
Schuler: Facebook went public overpriced and took years to recover
“If you're overvalued, and they really kind of force the issue out, you can see problems like Facebook experienced, you know, when they went out overpriced problems in the market, and it took them a couple of years of performing well before they straightened it…”