tl;dr It appears the Opensea Head of Product was effectively front-running NFT drops before they hit the homepage, buying ahead of listing and then selling after the pop.
"Because it’s Ken, I buy the stock although will buy more after this article is out and readers read this." - Ok, yes he bought already before and said he would buy more after the article. Well, anyways it is amazing how the stock prize changed since January and since the article.
Many brokers will guarantee an execution at VWAP. It's a competitive business. The last time I put in such an order, I traded a double-digit percentage of the day's volume and paid 10bp commission (0.10%).
At the time of Facebook's acquisition of Instagram Zynga was trading higher than today (it went downhill from there losing over 80% in a few months). The market cap was $9bn.
Edit 2: if you have some UK based Angels in your network you're thinking of approaching for investment, SEIS might help get them involved (which you'd lose if you incorporated in the US).
I can also attest to this happening.
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