Jackpot: Ten New Billionaires From IPOs In 2021
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Despite the SPAC boom, far more entrepreneurs became billionaires this year through a good old-fashioned traditional IPO.
Public markets were taking a beating when
Forbes finalized the World Billionaires’ list on March 18, 2020. The S&P 500 had cratered 29% from its February 19 high
as investors fled from equities while the world ground to a Covid-imposed halt. Companies like Airbnb and Warner Music Group, who had planned much anticipated IPOs in 2020, sought shelter from the storm instead.
Things couldn’t be more different this year. After a strong rebound in the second half of 2020 that has continued into 2021, public markets are again booming and plenty of entrepreneurs are getting in on the action. Among the record 493 new billionaires on this year’s list including 10 who rode the trendy SPAC wave to riches
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Акционеры постсоветского финтех-холдинга продали акций на $360 млн
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Вячеслав Ким продал более 655 тысяч акций Kaspi kz
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By Sam Kerr
05 Mar 2021
European equity capital markets continued to reel from volatility across the Atlantic on Friday. A sell-off in tech stocks is making the block trade market difficult and a popular IPO suffered on its first day of trading.
On Thursday night a $400m sale of shares in Kaspi, the Kazakh payments company, was conducted, the first block trade since its $1bn IPO last year.
The selling shareholders were Baring Vostok Capital Partners,
Goldman Sachs and Kaspi chairman Vyacheslav Kim.