Matt Levine, Columnist

Spotify's Non-IPO Wasn't Much of an IPO

Also: technology, bureaucracy, cryptocurrency and SEC impersonators.

April 5, 2018 at 2:22 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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My weird worry about Spotify Technology SA's not-exactly-an-initial-public-offering, which happened on Tuesday, was that no one would sell. And I think I was right?