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> Sell to a later investor in a private financing round.

But what incentives would those later investors have?

Public company stock is valuable because it provides the owner a dividend stream, control of the company as well as ownership of the company's assets; I wonder how an AirBnB, for example, that never went public would provide value to shareholders.



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