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Carrington Clarke

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ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

Yeah.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

And so at the moment when we've been talking about the valuations of these privately held companies, it's been based on the different funding rounds they've gone through, which is given that they say they've raised a certain amount of money at X valuation.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

It's less transparent than once you're on the stock market where you can very clearly see how much is a share worth, how many shares are held by individuals and therefore what is the value of this enterprise.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

Now, at the moment, there seems to be nothing but optimism when it comes to the business models of these companies.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

Remember, there were some shakes at the start of the year.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

There'd previously been some shakes when it came to the CrowdStrike, the sell-off that we saw in AI, where suddenly people started to worry about valuations.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

They all seem to have subsided for the moment.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

And it appears that if your company is linked to AI, you're basically seen as backing a winner.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

So how do you feel when you look at the valuations we're seeing on the stock market and the risk of there being some problems down the path?

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

I mean, you've been watching markets for a very long time.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

Does this remind you of any other type of boom that we've seen in the past?

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

So we've been talking in the last few years about the Magnificent Seven.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

These are the big mega cap companies that have driven so much of the growth in the stock market.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

I guess if we add

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

these three that are expected to launch this year.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

We've got some sort of 10.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

What's our adjective for the 10?

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

We'll work on that by the end of this program.

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

But it is so concentrated where we've seen this growth recently and also the

ABC Business Daily
Big tech goes public

the mingling of them is also quite extraordinary.