They handed over boatloads of money because that is the toll that Wall Street firms exact in illiquid markets and that is how Wall Street firms make money.
I'm not saying that they were screwed over.
> all he said was it makes the stock market look bad when some people double their money in a day.
That is one part of what he says, very misleading. He describes it as an "error" that is due to a flaw in the "way Wall Street is organized" (ie. around capitalizing on IPOs). That's more than just saying the markets "look bad".
No one could’ve predicted Airbnb would be bid up to $100B.
Just because you’re Goldman does not mean you can predict where a share price will go on day 1. we are in a massive speculative cycle that isn’t just impacting Airbnb’s IPO but a lot of tech stocks, many up 1x-10x in a year.
So to try to argue that wall street purposefully set the price too low when $50B is already high given travel hasn’t fully recovered yet is makes no sense.
> Just because you’re Goldman does not mean you can predict where a share price will go on day 1.
The EMH doesn't apply if there wasn't a previous market price. This was an absolutely massive move, and I'm supposed to believe there was no indication of that ahead of time.
You can definitely model supply and demand if you're Goldman - I'm not saying that you can predict market moves, but this wasn't a move from a previous efficient market-determined price.
> $50B is already high given travel hasn’t fully recovered yet is makes no sense.
$50B is not high by definition given the current market pricing.
I don’t really know why you’re so caught up in this.
Airbnb could take advantage of their stock price and issue more shares in a secondary offering tomorrow if they wanted to and “screw” the investors who doubled their money in a day by diluting them. It’s not like this was their one shot of raising money ever again.
There’s really nothing for Airbnb to be mad about.
I'm not saying that they were screwed over.
> all he said was it makes the stock market look bad when some people double their money in a day.
That is one part of what he says, very misleading. He describes it as an "error" that is due to a flaw in the "way Wall Street is organized" (ie. around capitalizing on IPOs). That's more than just saying the markets "look bad".