Buzzy tech IPOs are overwhelming retail trading platforms

# When Hot Stock Offerings Go Public, Regular People Get Left Behind When SpaceX went public recently, so many everyday investors tried to buy shares through apps like Robinhood that the platforms couldn't keep up—people asking for 100 shares got just one or two instead. The real problem is that Wall Street's big institutional investors get priority access to new stock offerings, while regular people using trading apps only get scraps of what they actually want to buy, even when there's massive public demand.