The US initial public offering market is broken.
The process as we know it was born on October 13 1971, when Intel raised less than $10m from 64 underwriters. That valued the company at $58m after the fundraising. But IPOs haven’t changed much since 1971, and the process no longer works in many key areas. Among those areas are the quiet period, which limits what companies can tell investors ahead of the float, the lock-up rules that would have prevented our employees from selling their shares, and the size of the underwriting fees.
That is why Spotify, the streaming service where I serve as chief financial officer, opted for a direct listing instead.
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