{"id":61684,"date":"2018-01-08T01:24:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61684"},"modified":"2018-01-08T01:24:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T06:24:37","slug":"spotifys-non-ipo-really-is-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2018\/spotifys-non-ipo-really-is-new.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotify&#8217;s Non-IPO Really Is New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Spotify AB has filed confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public via a direct listing, in which it won&#8217;t sell shares in an initial public offering but will instead just one day declare that it is public and let anyone who wants to trade its shares. We have talked a few times about this plan &#8212; it&#8217;s weird &#8212; and each time I write about it someone emails to say &#8220;you forgot to mention that Google did something similar in 2004.&#8221; That is &#8230; not true?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-01-04\/spotify-s-non-ipo-really-is-novel\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Spotify AB has filed confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public via a direct listing, in which it won&#8217;t sell shares in an initial public offering but will instead just one day declare that it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61685,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61684\/revisions\/61685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}