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Meta, Uber, Airbnb, and Snap IPO Returns

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Meta, Uber, Airbnb, and Snap IPO Returns

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Oct 29, 2022
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What do Meta, Uber, Airbnb, and Snap have in common?

IPO investors haven’t done very well:

Source: A Tweet I can’t Track Down :(

What’s going on?

1. Companies are staying private longer than ever

All 4 of these companies were darlings of Silicon Valley before they went public. They stayed private while famous:

  • SNAP: 6 years

  • META: 8 years

  • UBER: 10 years

  • ABNB: 12 …

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