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December 16, 2022

Powered by cookies, not airplanes: pricing and allocating IPO shares

Price your offering to maximise return on the IPO and reap the right mix of investors, says GitLab's CEO


Sid Sijbrandij

7 min read

This is the last in a three-part series (find parts one and two here) and I’ll focus on pricing and allocating the IPO shares — in other words, how to figure out what price shareholders are willing to pay to invest in the company, and which investors to allocate shares to. Spoiler: in short, you want to price such that the company maximises its return from the IPO while signing up the right mix of long-term investors. 

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