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I’m pro-algorithm,” said Bill Gurley, a general partner at venture capital titan Benchmark. . Gurley, along with Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz, have been talking up the benefits of a direct listing instead of traditional IPOs, where banks purchase giant blocks of stock, then make them available to clients at one price the night before.
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