Pedestrians pass the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024.
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Silicon Valley is known for producing tech businesses that start in garages and turn into massive publicly traded companies ubiquitously known across the globe. From Oracle and Microsoft to Google and Facebook, the public markets are responsible for turning ambitious tech founders into billionaires.
But the appeal of the IPO…