Startups are suffering a hangover from the binge years of early COVID-era investment.

Selling data to help train AI models is a big part of Reddit’s plan to make money now that it’s a public company.

We’ll get quarterly results from Reddit after the bell today, the first chance to see the company’s earnings since its stock market debut back in March.

SPAC stands for special purpose acquisition company. It’s how the parent company of Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform is planning to go public.

The idea is to reward them for their loyalty.

The maker of sensible sandals has been around for 250 years. So why did it go public now?

Birkenstock shares started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, pricing its IPO at $46 per share.

And that’s before the shares even get to the P in the acronym: the public. First there’s the “roadshow,” later, hopefully, the “pop.”

The supportively soled shoe brand is the latest company to file to sell stock to the public after a long IPO drought. The move indicates a stable, confident market.

The chip design company Arm is going public later this year, in the biggest IPO since 2021. If investors are interested, other companies could start going public, too.