Simon Belanger
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Appearances Over Time
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This has to be one of the biggest quarters I've seen from this company in quite some time.
Yeah, and we have kind of a segment going over, I think I probably pulled 10 or 15 years worth of kind of high profile Canadian short reports that have been issued, what happened, how they did afterwards, things like that.
So the Monday episode will be a good one.
But let's get into SpaceX.
It was a success, I would say.
Yahoo would have been... That would have been pre-Google, would it not?
I think Google was founded maybe late 1990s.
But Yahoo was supposed to be like the biggest search engine you could get.
They were going to be one of the larger ones.
But obviously... Yeah, Yahoo was big.
Yeah, so Google was founded in 1998.
So yeah, this would have been the Yahoo heyday where they were going to be effectively what Google is now.
I talked to quite a few people and very few got a ton of shares.
I think most orders were from SpaceX.
Yeah.
Most orders were filling for like, maybe like two to 4% of requests.
So yeah, it was, there was a few Canadian IPOs as well, where like the shares you actually got versus what you requested are, were, were very little.
This was a no brainer that it would be like that though, because this IPO was oversubscribed like mad.
It was a,
Yeah, and I think for a lot of the retail investors, they're a relatively small portion of all of this.