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Silicon Valley

SEC Presses Pause on NYSE’s Direct Listing Plan

Silicon Valley

Plenty of wonderful fads come out of Silicon Valley. But lots of strange and even dangerous ones do too: soylent diets, dopamine fasting, doomsday prep and an overreliance on black turtlenecks. Which category do direct listings fall into? T...

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Palantir Pursues Direct Listing with a Twist

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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, the secretive data mining company that just filed registration documents in support of a dir...

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Spotify Tests SEC Patience with Dual-Class Shares for Stock Offering

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Spotify is planning a stock offering in a couple of months, and it appears that the music streaming service’s co-founders are taking their cues from Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” Even after Spotify shares hit the market, founders Daniel Elk and...

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