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For several years, there has been witnessed an adverse trend of a decrease in initial public offerings and an increase in the number of companies leaving the trading floor of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. At the same time, there have been numerous changes in the understanding of a public offering since the foundation of the WSE. The purpose of this article is a praxeological analysis of the evolution of the definition of a public offering in the context of companies going public and the trends in this area occurring on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.