In either case, managements of many publicly owned corporations, concerned over the stock market impact, would probably run their businesses differently.

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The news prompted PrivCo, a research firm that provides financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies, to publish a report that declared Pipkin a billionaire.

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