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by bsullivan01 4682 days ago
Why does a company need to raise so-much-money before going public?

To spend it on a drastically raising revenue before the IPO: "...Our revenue grew by 785% last year so buy shares of our $xx billion company..."

*Isn't the whole point of "going public" to raise money?" Nope, many times (if not most) it's to get the money back and then some for the early investors.