in Internet Accounts. wnen a Tirm wants to begin selling its stock to the public (such as Uber in 2019), the firm conducts an IPO and generally hires an Investment Banking firm to manage the stock offering. IPO stands for and another term for stock is Initial Public Offering; Equity Initial Public Offering: Certificate Initial Privileged Offering: Share Initial Private Offering: Security Question 8 1 pts There are many publicly-owned (or publicly-traded) firms that are listed on the two most popular stock exchanges in the U.S. and a recent estimate of the number of publicly-traded firms is: 2.400 10,000 7,000 15.000 4,000