Snowflake IPO Creates Flood of Wealth for Silicon Valley Royalty

(Bloomberg) — Snowflake Inc.’s initial public offering isn’t just creating new fortunes, it’s adding to the wallets of some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names.Iconiq Capital, a multifamily office whose clients include Facebook Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, LinkedIn Corp.’s Reid Hoffman and Twitter Inc.’s Jack Dorsey, took part in multiple Snowflake funding rounds beginning in 2017. Its 12% stake in the company, purchased for $245 million, is now worth more than $4 billion.At its initial offering price of $120 a share, the cloud-computing company is worth $33.3 billion, more than Twitter and almost tripling the $12.4 billion it was valued at in …read more

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