It's here. The company that shook up urban transportation, soaked up billions of dollars in venture capital and racked up an obscene number of corporate scandals over the last decade will finally list on the New York Stock Exchange today. Uber priced its shares in the initial public offering at $45 apiece, near the low end of its range. Recent turbulence in the stock market and heightened U.S.-China trade tensions surely didn't help.
But there will be people celebrating—Garrett Camp, for one. The co-founder wound up with a personal stake worth $3.7 billion and holds the distinction of reaping the largest windfall for doing the least amount of work, as Eric Newcomer writes in his profile of Camp. Another victor is Bill Gurley, an early Uber investor who studied the art of the deal under investment banker Frank Quattrone and was once described by Marc Andreessen as "my Newman." Here's how the eight other largest shareholders made out in the biggest IPO in the U.S. since 2014.
Follow along with us on trading day for news coverage on Bloomberg.com and a Bloomberg TV interview with Dara Khosrowshahi, the chief executive officer.
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