Riding Shotgun: Mega IPOs and Founder Control
Founders are increasingly retaining outsized voting control when companies such as SpaceX go public. In this episode, we explore this growing trend, known as control skew, and what a decade of major U.S. IPOs tells us about its relationship with performance.
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The Performance Record of Control Skew in US IPOs
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