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Coinbase CEO Sold $291.8M in Shares on Opening Day (sg.finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by aent 1880 days ago
2 comments

The replies suggest it's not unusual or alarming

> This is exactly how a direct sale works as opposed to an > IPO. Because no additional shares are created in a direct > sale, the initial investors have to make a large % of > their holdings available or there would be no stock for > the public to buy. > This is to be expected. Relax.

Quite normal for a direct listing. Otherwise not enough shares would be available. Also look at the stock options. C level is very well incentivized.