In spite of the recent falls in the value of the Nasdaq index and the value of Amazon stock, the new technology had the city by the ears: the talk was still of start-ups, IPOs, interactivity, the unimaginable future that had just begun to begin. 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, pages 3–4:
You just shrug when you change the site’s privacy settings overnight to capture lucrative personal information and make Facebook’s IPO one of the biggest in Silicon Valley. 2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:
The paper points towards a broader shift from public to private financial markets where the winning tech firms with hectobillion-dollar-equity valuations may reject IPOs and stay privately-held while founders seek to retain total corporate control over AGI technologies. 2025 November 12, David Kampmann, Capitalism Going Dark? How AI Start-ups Compete with Big Tech by Leveraging Private Capital Markets (CITYPERC Seminar), London: City St George’s Political Economy Research Centre, via Eventbrite, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2025:
But AB InBev pulled the plug on a proposed IPO of its Asian business in Hong Kong earlier this month, citing tough market conditions. 2019 July 25, Paul R. La Monica, “Good news for the king of beer: People are drinking more”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2025:
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Intellectual Property Office.
(intransitive, transitive) To launch an initial public offering, to go public.
OnX recently IPO'ed at $7.50 per share, quickly rose to $10.50 per share and then drifted down to about $5 per share. 2000, Patrick Doucette, Making a Fortune in Canadian Stocks: How to Get Started on the Road to Wealth with Canadian Equities, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 51:
The extra scrutiny was a sign of the times, but having never IPO-ed a company before, most of the executive team took it as par for the course. 2022, Jimmy Soni, The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
@大学生讲坛 tweets, “A stock market investor asks Hades, ‘What level of hell is this?’ Hades replies, ‘The 18th.’ The investor tears up out of happiness, ‘Finally I've managed to buy at the bottom!’ Hades looks at him with a smile, ‘Don't you know that hell has IPOed and expanded to 36 levels?’” 2012 October 1, Rachel Lu, “Gallows Humor: The Dark Jokes of Weibo as China's Stock Market Tanked”, in The Atlantic: