The New Rules of the IPO

Silicon Valley Is Quietly Building Its Own Wall Street

Can a new stock exchange backed by the Bay Area’s most powerful players take on the NYSE and Nasdaq?

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Marker

21 min readFeb 18, 2020

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This story is part of The New Rules of the IPO, a multi-part special report.
Illustrations: James Clapham

Adam Bluestein

Written by Adam Bluestein

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Marker

I write about business, science, and things that people do for fun. Work published in Fast Company, Inc., Men’s Journal, Proto, Marker. Vermonter by choice.

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