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When you have wealth VCs, who are flush with cash, taking a company public, you can know right then and there that the future of growth and revenue is lackluster, at least from the insider perspective. Obviously, sometimes they get it wrong and a company does better than expected after going public. But if the insiders thought the company was poised for extreme growth, why would they sell their shares to unsuspecting, small time investors?

IMHO, companies that IPO and stay stable, or IPO and drop, are doing their early employees a favor at the market and institutional investors' expenses.

I can't fault that.

If the market's willing to overpay, and the money goes the people who actually built a company, where's the harm?

That’s the problem, crypto as an asset class has been nothing but a QAnon-fueled meme “stock”. Unfortunately, I don’t think this is the end of it until we see much more pain.

I can’t believe that real friends and family members that I know seriously invested in Dogecoin.