So if someone wanted to purchase shares in Paizo, where would they look? I'm really new to the whole stockmarket thing, and having a heck of a time finding out any information on it.
Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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Paizo is privately held, so you can't really purchase any equity interest in the company.
(There are lots of exceptions to this rule of thumb, but none of them are applicable here. In particular, Paizo or its existing members would need to want to sell interests in the company, which is highly unlikely).
What they said... plus the chances they will go public any time in the next few years are really slim. It's very expensive and time consuming for a company to go public.
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Director of Brand Strategy
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What they said... plus the chances they will go public any time in the next few years are really slim. It's very expensive and time consuming for a company to go public.
Not to mention risky. Giving up some control and decision making to anyone who happens to buy a significant number of shares doesn't seem like the kind of thing that Paizo's management would want to do.
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What he said.
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Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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Paizo is privately held, so you can't really purchase any equity interest in the company.Unless Lisa wants to split her shares with you.
edit: Thanks for editing your post and making mine redundant, Sebastian.
Glad to help! I typed it up in the car and went for short and sweet. But then I realized I'd get a response like yours and decided to add in a bit more. The short answer to the question "How do I buy stock in Paizo" is "You can't." Even if Paizo were raising funds as a private company, it's highly unlikely that any particular person here could participate in such a raise. Participants in a financing usually invest somewhere in the $25k-100k range and need to represent that they are an accredited investor (which typically means they make more than $200k per year (or $300k for a married couple)).
So, the short answer of "you really can't" is accurate and correct for the overwhelming majority of those who ask the question. It's like asking "can I play in the Olympics." Sure, you can theoretically play in the Olympics, but it's highly unlikely you ever will.
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be a superscriber! That's one way to be a part of the company!What he said.
Make them be sucessful enough that they have 1,000 employees, at that point they force you to go public (but you only have to be publicly owned you don't have to be publicly traded - at least that's my layman's take on it) at least they do in MA
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Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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Make them be sucessful enough that they have 1,000 employees, at that point they force you to go public (but you only have to be publicly owned you don't have to be publicly traded - at least that's my layman's take on it)
Are you thinking of option holders, perhaps? Companies have certain filing obligations that come into play once they have a certain number of stockholders, but there's no such obligations of which I am aware that are triggered by the number of employees.
Edit: Ah, you revised your post. There might be some state law filings, but that's not the same as going public. There's probably an obligation to file public reports, but that's different from having publicly traded stock, which is regulated primarily by the Feds.
Gotcha...thanks guys. If it makes any sense, I don't have the money to subscribe at the moment. Wish I did, but what little I have now needs to make more of itself, as opposed to go away and come back in the form of space taking up books and minis. Though, depending on how much of the space taking up books and minis I already have that I manage to sell, things might change...