• bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    Was the option to purchase the stock at a reduced rate, or just to purchase it before the IPO? When that happened, it just seemed like a way to inflate their opening stock price by getting the most hard core users to literally buy in.

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      1 day ago

      If you sold today. Still a 30,000$ investment would be worth nearly a million.

      They made the offer to specific long term accounts pre-ipo. No different than with Robinhood pre ipo access.

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        Ok, thanks, I’m unfamiliar with pre IPO access, so that’s helpful. Just to make sure I understand, from Reddit’s perspective, they weren’t setting the option price lower than the market price when the option offered? There was just a pre ipo market which you got the ability to trade on, no income earned when executing the option?