tender offer
noun
: a public offer to buy not less than a specified number of shares of a stock at a fixed price from stockholders usually in an attempt to gain control of the issuing company
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Last year, OpenAI held an employee tender offer, allowing staffers to sell some of their equity to the company.
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Hayden Field, CNBC, 23 May 2025
Follow the money: Plaid plans to use the proceeds to convert expiring RSUs into common shares and fund an employee tender offer.
—Ryan Lawler, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
Buzzy artificial intelligence company Scale AI is wrapping up a tender offer that allows early employees and investors in the nine-year-old private company to sell shares to new or returning investors.
—Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Bloomberg reported on Monday that SpaceX is considering a tender offer that would value the rocket company at $350 billion, up from $210 billion earlier this year.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2024
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Hayden Field, CNBC, 23 May 2025
Follow the money: Plaid plans to use the proceeds to convert expiring RSUs into common shares and fund an employee tender offer.
—Ryan Lawler, Axios, 3 Apr. 2025
Buzzy artificial intelligence company Scale AI is wrapping up a tender offer that allows early employees and investors in the nine-year-old private company to sell shares to new or returning investors.
—Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Bloomberg reported on Monday that SpaceX is considering a tender offer that would value the rocket company at $350 billion, up from $210 billion earlier this year.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Tender offer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tender%20offer. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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