they get sold on the hype and all the big dollar signs. It is a whole operation to distract the private owners from the loss of control and the fact that they are being paid paper and they usually don't make out nearly as good as they were led to believe they would.

It's one way they can get a shitload of foreign money injected into their lives. After George Soros invested $45m into activision, the board paid the new CEO something like 10-20 million dollars and he had just started. Obviously a payoff for going woke with the blm shit

It's a good way to raise a ton of money at once for new projects. The disadvantage is you don't get to control who owns you afterward.

The stock market is where good companies go to die.

I'm thinking these days crowdfunding is safer for smaller companies. Have people invest in getting the product rather than a share of the profits. It's also a good way to gauge interest.

Private equity is another bane; I know one business that bought out the creator, dumped the employees and hired new. They may be making money, but it is slowly aging.