Reddit’s IPO Fate Rests With Users Who Fueled Meme Stock Frenzy

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(Bloomberg) -- When Reddit Inc. lists on the New York Stock Exchange this week, its fate will rest, in part, in familiar hands: those of its users..

He immediately decided to buy in, saying Reddits plans to license data to artificial intelligence companies to train large language models is what makes him a believer in the stocks longterm value..

Reddit will want to avoid the kind of whipsaw suffered by Robinhood Markets Inc. and Instacart, which both sold shares to the very retail traders who pumped the stocks of GameStop Corp. during 2021s meme mania..

Thousands of members of the WallStreetBets forum which boasts around 15 million users and helped send the share prices of companies like GameStop to eye-popping heights during the pandemic voted to boost a forum post about shorting Reddits stock when it begins trading..

Noor Al, a 28-year-old senior analyst in Toronto for a private equity backed health-care company, said he intends to buy as many shares as Reddit will allow and may sell call options against the shares..

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