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It's technically possible. You can imagine a company with exactly 100 shares, and a contract that allows the company a right to buy any share put up for sale pre-IPO for $1. Then all 100 shares are "worth" a dollar, even if the price in the market without that clause would be $20MM. That would correspond to a $2 billion valuation.


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