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by rdl 4386 days ago
There was actually a really interesting experiment at the tail end of the dotcom boom -- the WR+Hambrecht (San Francisco) "OpenIPO". Essentially it was a dutch auction (I think) for IPO shares, and open to the public. Google was the big success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIPO

VA Linux did some interesting stuff with their IPO (so did RedHat, I think), where community members got access above what the public received, too.