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TheAtomic | on: Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
Actually, that's the service provided by GS, etc. They have those buyers on the other side of their Rolodex.
ajross | parent | next
Well, yes. They're the ones who actually employ the hundred lawyers and PR staff. But that's what it takes, and it's not about clicking some buttons on a Web 2.0 Day Trading UI.
dgellow | root | parent
It's really not far from it. You don't need to do a private off-exchange sale (though you can), they do incremental execution (where you break the trade in small batches)
imagent | parent
What is GS?
smnscu | root | parent | next
Presumably Goldman Sachs (or any investment bank worth its salt)
thaumasiotes | root | parent
Well, to be really accurate, I assume GS is Goldman Sachs alone and "any investment bank worth its salt" is referred to by the "etc".
blitzar | root | parent | next
a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money