Generally if you want to buy the whole thing / take it private, you have to pay out all shareholders in cash the public market price plus a premium - you definitely don't get a discount.
Just look at what happened to Elon.
Just look at what happened to Elon.
If you happen to hold the majority of shares and then try to sell them suddenly you’ll sell them at a discount. Just look at TSLA when Elon had to liquidate significantly to pay for TWTR.
The whole premise of this comment thread is that ARM made more by selling 10% of its stock on a public market than they would have by selling 100% of it to Nvidia. In other words: there already was a buyer who wanted to take ARM private. So how does it seem unreasonable to assume one would exist, when we already know that one did?
maybe we should stop here then