Death Star IPO

Categories: IPO, Banking

An innovative way to finance your planet-killing space station. We’re going to assume the Empire built the first Death Star on credit and decided to raise some investor capital for the second one.

Right now, in a galaxy right right here, a Death Star IPO is one set to blow up Wall Street. Like a stock that shows a massive gain in its first day of public trading. Think: Google going public in 2004. Or Facebook in 2012.

And in case you've lived your whole life as the lone inhabitant of a monastery on a tiny windswept island off the coast of Scotland, the "Death Star" part of the "Death Star IPO" is a reference to Star Wars. And not the missile defense system. The movie.

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company who's raising money by selling shares of itself to

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the public for the first time a maiden voyage in

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million shares outstanding after three private rounds with venture capitalists

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exchange That is the insiders early investors founders et cetera

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ten million shares a twelve bucks each to raise one

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hundred twenty million dollars which they can spend to build

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