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  Opendoor’s IPO last month crowned CEO Eric Wu a billionaire. It quintupled the value of SoftBank’s stake to $2.3 billion. And it reaped early investor Khosla Ventures a 36x return — on paper. After merging with a blank-check company last month, the iBuyer’s stock closed at $31.25 per share on its next day of trading, Dec. 21, giving it a market capitalization of close to $19 billion. (The stock closed at $28.13 per share on Jan. 7.) Opendoor’s largest shareholder is SoftBank, with a 13.5 percent stake, followed by Khosla Ventures (8.5 percent) and Len Blavatnik’s Access Industr...

Share via Shortlink Clockwise from left: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, Opendoor CEO Eric Wu, Black Lives Matter protests (Illustration by The Real Deal) “Unprecedented” may have been overused in news stories this year, but no word better describes the events of 2020. The coronavirus pandemic defined the year, claiming several hundred thousand American lives and wiping out millions of jobs. Huge sectors of the economy were shut down, flipping the real estate industry on its head and forcing developers, landlords and brokers to scramble. Covid exacerbated problem...

IPOs are hot in Silicon Valley. SPACs are even hotter [San Francisco Chronicle] Dec. 24—Andrew Paradise, CEO of mobile e-sports company Skillz, rang the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell this month, a time-honored way that newly public companies celebrate their Wall Street debut. Because of the pandemic, he did so remotely over Skype. But there was an even bigger difference from tradition in how Skillz went public. The San Francisco company eschewed a conventional initial public offering, in which investment bankers pitch a company to investors and arrange for sales of its shares bef...

IPOs are hot in Silicon Valley. SPACs are even hotter FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Paw Andersen is chief technology officer of Metromile. The San Francisco auto insurer has agreed to become publicly traded through a deal known as a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company.Paul Kuroda / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of5 Virgin Galactic is merging with Social Capital Hedosophia, whose CEO, Chamath Palihapitiya, will become chairman of the combined entity.Matt Hartman / Associated Press 2018Show MoreShow Less 3of5 Andersen joined Metromile last year from Uber. The company charges ...

Eric Wu | Photo credit: Opendoor “Today, we celebrate the milestone of becoming a publicly traded company and this moment is more rewarding due to the challenges we overcame,” Opendoor CEO Eric Wu wrote in a blog post shared with Inman. “Like most startups, we’ve faced our fair share of hard problems, but we believed in the potential impact of what we were building and put in the hard work to tackle obstacle after obstacle.” “While our path wasn’t a straight-line, I’m proud that we have and continue to remain focused on the customer, act from ownership, and build a community o...