" finally the offering was launched on December 11, 2019, on the home court—the much smaller Riyadh stock exchange. Just 1.5 percent of the company was on offer. Still, it finally topped out at $29.4 billion, eclipsing the debut value of China’s Alibaba to become the largest IPO in history. "

― Daniel Yergin , The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations