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How Founders Use IPO Price Negotiation Leverage
When a startup goes public, the final IPO price is not just set by bankers—founders have more leverage than they think. In this episode, Lucas and Luna break down the mechanics of the IPO bookbuilding process, the role of anchor investors, and how founders can negotiate better pricing by creating competition among institutional buyers. They use the recent Databricks 188 billion valuation as a concrete example, and look at how the current market's volatility—with mega-cap tech stocks like Meta down 5.6% in the past five days—affects the leverage balance. Listeners will learn three…
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