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How Founder Liquidity Pools Are Reshaping Pre-IPO Exits
In this episode of The Startup Exit Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore the rise of founder liquidity pools — secondary market facilities that let pre-IPO founders sell shares before their company goes public. Using SpaceX's record-breaking $85.7 billion IPO as a case study, they unpack how early SpaceX investors and employees cashed out via tender offers years before the IPO, and how that model is spreading to late-stage private companies. They reference Coinbase's 170-point-oh-three dollar stock price today and the ARK Innovation ETF's 5.9 percent weekly gain as signals of…
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