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finally the offering was launched on December 11, 2019, on the home court—the much smaller Riyadh stock exchange. Just 1.5 percent of the company was on offer. Still, it finally topped out at $29.4 billion, eclipsing the debut value of China’s Alibaba to become the largest IPO in history.
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Daniel Yergin (The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations)
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Amazon by comparison had about 230,000 employees, and Wal-Mart boast a massive 2.3 million employed around the world with 1.5 million just in the US alone.
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Think Maverick (Entrepreneur: Jack Ma, Alibaba and the 40 Thieves of Success)