Initial Public Offering

An Initial Public Offering (IPO) is the process by which a company issues publicly traded stock for the first time.

In-Game Card
Initial Public Offering is an Economy card for the Defender. Rules text: Make 2X dollars where X is the number of active Servers in play. This card is a way for the Defender to make money more quickly than the one-dollar-for-one-action method.

Real-Life Concept
When a company first issues stock it does so through a process called the initial public offering. This takes a private company public. It is a complicated process involving many different groups that results in the listing of a new stock on an exchange. Recent history gives many examples of technology companies going public via an IPO and reaping a large amount of money as a recent. But by no means is a real-life IPO a guarantee of riches.