We're just exchanging shares.

They didn't keep the people who were educated.

They want it to look like that, so that in the future when there's an IPO, people get excited to get in it.

Of course 7 is being re directed to the investment bankers.

And they'll go to these guys and say hey, we have this hot IPO issue, socks.com.

The company initially raises money by selling shares.

So what the bank will do is it'll take these shares and then it'll sell it to the general public.

This is the first day of trading, this is your IPO price.

We've already done a Series A, now we want to do a Series B, and a Series C, and so forth and so on.

But they don't want to do it so high that the stock doesn't trade up.

I mean, you'd think this is the result of some tabletop experiment, but this is the result of worldwide chaotic behavior countries accusing each other of dumping products,

I would go to an investment bank and I'd say or more likely they would come to me and say hey, you guys could raise big money in the public markets right now.

To mainly institutional investors, but it might be some favored rich guys.

You start with the angel investors, or maybe your rich uncle, and then eventually get venture capitalists, and you do an initial public offering.

They borrowed it from their local mortgage broker, who then sold it to a bank, or to an investment bank, who created the special purpose entity, and then they IPO the special purpose entity and raise the money from people who bought the mortgage backed securities.