IPOChatter: Track Prospective Tech IPOs
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·June 15, 2025candiddevmike
downrightmike
All value has been extracted by VC before the IPO. All the IPO does is dump the stock on institutions and retail investors.
el_nahual
This is trivially proven false, at least as a generalization. Looking at recent-ish IPOs:
Spotify: up 380% since IPO
Service Now: 4,000%
Shopify: 685%
Meta: 1,600%
candiddevmike
There are at least 150-250 IPOs every year, good luck picking winners like those four.
asah
um, perhaps it's worth reviewing the stock charts for MAANG whose early investors extracted a tiny % of the their total marketcaps.
The subtlety is that you can buy shares on the open market post-IPO, so when you buy "pre-IPO" you're just getting the one-time "pop."
davedx
SpaceX and Stripe in the list despite no intention to go public… just name checks. A bit silly
brutherford
And they are at the bottom of the list with no near-term prospects which it says when you click them (it’s hard to exclude them in any discussion about big tech IPOs given the general interest in those names).
MOARDONGZPLZ
Maybe more granularity is needed in the scale. I appreciate the ChatGPT or whatever pulling in news to back up the claim, but some have materially different claims yet the same confidence ranking. I do appreciate that even filed docs make a company 4/5 though and not 5/5.
malshe
What's going on with Cerebras IPO? Someone is selling a lot of Cerebras shares on private companies marketplaces for the last few months. I have seen shares priced anywhere from $30 to $55.
null
IPOs are probably one of the worst gambles retail investors can make. Almost all of the financials are juiced, and more often than not the stock tanks in the near term post-IPO. You can't really make an informed buying decision, best to let the dust settle.