SEC Presses Pause on NYSE’s Direct Listing Plan
Plenty of wonderful fads come out of Silicon Valley. But lots of strange and even dangerous ones do too: soylent diets, dopamine fasting, doomsday pre...
Palantir Pursues Direct Listing with a Twist
What’s the difference between a stock offering and an epic battle between good and evil? That’s a trick question, at least in the case of Palantir...
Airbnb Opens its Doors to Stakeholders
Poke around on the website and it becomes clear that Airbnb fancies itself a different kind of company. The room-sharing and travel service touts itse...
Direct-to-Market Stocks: A Sign of the Future?
Remember back when it was a big deal for a company to hold an initial public offering? For starry-eyed founders, an IPO represented the pinnacle of th...
Slack Sends Message to Market With Direct Listing
Slack Technologies Inc. is poised to become the latest of the so-called unicorn companies to go public. The maker of workplace-collaboration app Slack...
Spotify Considers IPO Under Direct Listing Rules
Another of the tech unicorns has decided to move into the public offering space. This time, Spotify – like others before it – may decide to go pub...