IPO Pricing

topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes

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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'…”
Henry Schuck May 2, 2022 ▶ 32:14 Henry Schuck turned down $40m for 70% when he was 24
a16z Insight
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…”
Lawrence Levy Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:11 a16z Podcast | The Business of Creativity -- Pixar CFO, IPO, and Beyond!
20VC Assertion Partly supported
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…”
Barry Schuler Jul 5, 2017 ▶ 7:30 20VC: How To Get Back To 200 Tech IPOs Per Year, Why We Are In A 'Bulge" Not A Bubble & The Impending Flat & Down Rounds To Come with Barry Schuler, Partner @ DFJ Growth

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