IPO

IPO (plural IPOs)

1. (business) Initialism of initial public offering.

   Coordinate terms: FPO, PO

   • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, pages 3–4:

     In spite of the recent falls in the value of the Nasdaq index and the value of Amazon stock, the new technology had the city by the ears: the talk was still of start-ups, IPOs, interactivity, the unimaginable future that had just begun to begin.

   • 2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:

     You just shrug when you change the site’s privacy settings overnight to capture lucrative personal information and make Facebook’s IPO one of the biggest in Silicon Valley.

2. Initialism of Intellectual Property Office.

IPO (third-person singular simple present IPOs, present participle IPOing, simple past and past participle IPOed or IPO'ed or IPO-ed)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To launch an initial public offering, to go public.
   • 2000, Patrick Doucette, Making a Fortune in Canadian Stocks: How to Get Started on the Road to Wealth with Canadian Equities, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 51:

     OnX recently IPO'ed at $7.50 per share, quickly rose to $10.50 per share and then drifted down to about $5 per share.

   • 2012 October 1, Rachel Lu, “Gallows Humor: The Dark Jokes of Weibo as China's Stock Market Tanked”, in The Atlantic‎:

     @大学生讲坛 tweets, “A stock market investor asks Hades, ‘What level of hell is this?’ Hades replies, ‘The 18th.’ The investor tears up out of happiness, ‘Finally I've managed to buy at the bottom!’ Hades looks at him with a smile, ‘Don't you know that hell has IPOed and expanded to 36 levels?’”

   • 2022, Jimmy Soni, The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley‎, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     The extra scrutiny was a sign of the times, but having never IPO-ed a company before, most of the executive team took it as par for the course.

• IOP, OPI, P.O.I., PIO, POI, Pio, poi