Why did Square go public? To make its venture investors richer. That’s why. As for the public, they can live with a stock that stays $12 forever. This is, quite seriously, what the chart looks like for almost its entire life as a public entity. Three words. Pa. The. Tic.

It could be worse, of course. They could be the other red-hot IPO, GoPro:

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