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Direct stock offerings

  • SpotifyIn April 2006, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon established Spotify in Stockholm, Sweden. The idea emerged from a moment of frustration when the peer-to-peer…
  • CoinbaseBrian Armstrong, a former engineer at Airbnb, launched Coinbase in June 2012. He enrolled his startup into the Y Combinator incubator program and received an…
  • Palantir TechnologiesIn 2003, Peter Thiel and three Stanford colleagues established a company they named Palantir after the seeing stones in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium.