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You’ve probably heard of (but never spelled) Chamath Palihapitiya. He’s an arrogant blowhard billionaire venture capitalist who is absolutely full of himself. That’s not unusual for a VC, but he stepped in a gigantic pile of dog shit yesterday in an interview and is getting an amazing amount of blow-back, including from the companies he owns and controls! The guy is basically the World’s Biggest Douche right not……….
While the boring old SPY went up 29%, here’s how the most coveted IPOs of 2021 did:
Just in case I have any clinically insane readers, I wanted to point out that AMC (which is a dog stock, albeit a meme one) has just about closed its price gap, so it might be a short-time “buy” – – again, for any nutcases out there.
Dick Branson’s vanity space tourism company $SPCE has lost 82% of its value for its poor shareholders in just six months time. Just 18% to go! You can do it, Dick!
Well, back in 2011, Zynga was the hottest thing since sliced bread, and the IPO was red-hot. Now, over a decade later, you have a stock which, even with a buyout at a 44% premium to its prior close, had managed to LOSE money for its investors in the most gargantuan, fakest, most fraudulent bull market in history. Well, done guys. It’s almost impossible, what you achieved. Their fundamentals must have been absolutely dreadful.
