David Solomon
speaker
1,572 appearances
35 recordings
8 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 8 Jul
David Solomon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it's not fair to say that investors got to participate
you know, and everything, because it's not like there's more access for investors today.
And by the way, that's another thing.
Most companies don't survive.
So it's just not that simple.
I do think we've created a regulatory structure and a market structure that really makes it unattractive to go public until you have to.
The reason these companies are going public now
is because they have to.
They have capital needs that are so voracious that it is not prudent for them to try to do 100% of it in the private market and not have a public currency.
It's just not prudent.
And that's why I think you're going to see a bunch of these companies go public, because they actually need the capital.
It's interesting.
I've advised companies for years, and at one point, 25 years ago, I actually ran the equity capital markets business at Goldman Sachs.
That was a job I had early in my career in Goldman Sachs.
And I used to say to companies, there are few reasons to go public.
You need the capital, you need the currency, you have to create liquidity for early investors.
But all the other stuff that people talk about is really not critical and you have to recognize that if you're running a company successfully and you don't need those things,
When you take it public, you will run it differently.
You will run it differently.
It is different running a public company than a private company.
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