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You can bring in investors, go in retirement, sell your company. So ownership of a company can change. One way of doing that is to sell shares, another way is to give new ones to the newcomers. I don’t know this precise story with Silver Lake, but emitting new shares and diluting past investors to inject cash into the company is sometimes the only solution to bring cash on the account.


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