I totally agree especially with the IPOs.
Our equivalent of an IPO (more like rebirth, or recovery from a NDE), might be considered June 2018, with the merger.
One thing about those IPOs, so many will be in a honeymoon period that will give way to the "show me" period. It's like the Eagles' song, "New Kid in Town."
After the Honeymoon, they'll look like us for a while - like a turd that refuses to go down when you flush - until they're successful (or finally go down the drain).
(JK about the MRKR being like a turd part, sort of. But that seems to be the market's attitude toward us right now, what with the short interest and all.)
We're stuck in the Show Me period. We're like the thoroughly used and abused Wall Flower/thot watching from afar the Virgin's at the start of their Honeymoons. Bitches.
I find that thinking mean things about them makes me feel a little better about myself sometimes.