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Qualtrics private again with close of $12.5bn private equity deal

Private Equity Insights

The confirmation comes exactly a week after news of the acquisition bid first came to light, and some two years after SAP spun the business out as an independent publicly traded company, having bought it back in 2018 for $8 billion just as Qualtrics was originally planning its IPO. Shareholders have been offered $18.15

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1 Top Cryptocurrency to Buy Before It Soars 3,400%, According to Cathie Wood's Ark Invest

The Motley Fool

Cathie Wood is the founder and chief executive officer of Ark Invest, an asset management company focused on disruptive technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency. Wood and her team are optimistic about the decentralized finance market, in general, but they're especially bullish on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC).

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The metrics that matter for a successful exit

Insight Partners

The first decision you must make is your endpoint: an initial public offering (IPO), acquisition by a public company, acquisition by a private company, or a private equity takeover? Each requires you to make different decisions as your company grows. Choose your exit: IPO or acquisition?

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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

We are a publicly traded operating company committed to the continued development of the bitcoin network through our activities in the financial markets, advocacy, and technology innovation. Debt financing. Our two recent convertible note financings were both upsized and well-received by the market. Equity issuances.

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Cyclical Stocks Cycle

The Motley Fool

CEO Jeff Green said, I want to acknowledge upfront for the first time in 33 quarters as a public company, we fell short of our own expectations. Not wall Street expectations, but company guidance." The hardest part about it is I see lots of great private companies that are not places where we can invest.

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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

As a result, we've developed a new descriptor for what we are, which is the world's first and largest bitcoin treasury company, the acronym being, coincidentally, BTC. We are a publicly traded company that has adopted bitcoin as our primary treasury reserve asset. One, debt financing. So what does this mean? We have $4.3

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Transcript: Lynn Martin

The Big Picture

But what I tend to think about is what happens a month after you go public, what happens six months after you go public. And how could we be a good partner to that firm in their public company journey? And that’s what’s going to give the CEO and the public company, the next group of investors.