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by grinich 4468 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes–Oxley_Act

Being a publicly traded company sucks. I imagine a lot of this financing will go to cash out early investors, providing liquidity for those who need it, while still keeping the company private.

It's a common strategy with tech companies. (See Square, Uber, Dropbox, Twitter, etc.) The first major instance I remember was the $300MM DST/Yuri investment in Facebook in 2009.