Re:Stock and Bond Markets Dethroned: Private Fundraising Is ...
by MR4D on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:26AM
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Hers’s One complication:
Assume I start a business. I own 100% of it. It grows like crazy, and 5 years later, it’s worth $5 billion. Now you require me to go through all the regulatory hoops so that my stock can trade publicly. But nobody will buy my stock. Because there is only one owner, and he ain’t selling.
Simplistic, I know, but problems very similar to this actually exist.
Assume I start a business. I own 100% of it. It grows like crazy, and 5 years later, it’s worth $5 billion. Now you require me to go through all the regulatory hoops so that my stock can trade publicly. But nobody will buy my stock. Because there is only one owner, and he ain’t selling.
Simplistic, I know, but problems very similar to this actually exist.