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Fast Radius Inc., a 3D-printing company, made it nine months. Online retail startup Enjoy Technology Inc. lasted eight-and-a-half months before it filed. What these companies all have in common is the way they made it onto the market. Instead of selling shares in a conventional initial public offering, each of them merged with a special purpose acquisition company. A SPAC is a publicly traded corporate shell with no business other than to seek out a merger with another company, which then inherits the shell's listing. Such deals were a pandemic-era Wall Street fad--but now a growing number of ventures that went public in this way have gone bankrupt, highlighting how speculative the SPAC game could be. 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