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Tren Griffin, industry influencer, reflects on practices in private secondary share transactions before IPOs in the late 1990s. He highlights that founders, employees, and venture investors frequently sold shares through private sales, with buyers often sourced informally.
According to Griffin, these private secondaries included elements like asymmetric information, illiquidity, signaling, optionality, and reflexive pricing.
Griffin has commented on other market developments in recent coverage. He noted that Philippine inflation jumped to 7.2 percent in April 2026, driven by rising food and transport costs. In a separate note, he discussed Spirit Airlines' debt, merger questions, and lack of pricing power. These observations reflect Griffin’s ongoing focus on financial markets and company fundamentals.