Tech IPOs Slow To A Crawl As 2016 Heads To A Close as Snapchat Eyes IPO In 2017 Snapchat’s widely-rumored IPO appears to be a go for early 2017. If successful, it could help other private unicorns make the leap into the public markets. Conversely, the tail-end of the 2016 tech IPO market looks slow.
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