Hussein Kanji

It is not hard on a Bloomberg terminal to put a few extra characters and to buy a share on a New York exchange or a NASDAQ exchange as it is on the LSE exchange. It just doesn't matter. The world is global these days. And if you live in a global world...

It is not hard on a Bloomberg terminal to put a few extra characters and to buy a share on a New York exchange or a NASDAQ exchange as it is on the LSE exchange. It just doesn't matter. The world is global these days. And if you live in a global world...

What does a local liquidity market matter? If the pension funds here were like they were 20, 30 years ago, where they had to invest locally, it matters because the pensioners are being screwed. The pension funds can invest globally. The only people who realistically get screwed are the service providers around the company. If you list on the LSE, Goldman in London gets the mandate.

What does a local liquidity market matter? If the pension funds here were like they were 20, 30 years ago, where they had to invest locally, it matters because the pensioners are being screwed. The pension funds can invest globally. The only people who realistically get screwed are the service providers around the company. If you list on the LSE, Goldman in London gets the mandate.

What does a local liquidity market matter? If the pension funds here were like they were 20, 30 years ago, where they had to invest locally, it matters because the pensioners are being screwed. The pension funds can invest globally. The only people who realistically get screwed are the service providers around the company. If you list on the LSE, Goldman in London gets the mandate.

Lazard in London gets the mandate. Ernst & Young gets the mandate in London. You create more jobs around the industry. But the company is fine. The corporate tax is still a UK company.

Lazard in London gets the mandate. Ernst & Young gets the mandate in London. You create more jobs around the industry. But the company is fine. The corporate tax is still a UK company.

Lazard in London gets the mandate. Ernst & Young gets the mandate in London. You create more jobs around the industry. But the company is fine. The corporate tax is still a UK company.

If you're not going public these days, unless you're a top 1%.

If you're not going public these days, unless you're a top 1%.

If you're not going public these days, unless you're a top 1%.

So we looked at the data. The bar for an IPO today in the US is north of 200 to 300 million. Gone are the days where you could take a company public, where you could raise... I remember when I was growing up in the industry, like 10, 15 years ago, an IPO is like 100 million of revenue or an IPO candidate. It doesn't exist anywhere. That world has shifted. That was a 10-year-old world.

So we looked at the data. The bar for an IPO today in the US is north of 200 to 300 million. Gone are the days where you could take a company public, where you could raise... I remember when I was growing up in the industry, like 10, 15 years ago, an IPO is like 100 million of revenue or an IPO candidate. It doesn't exist anywhere. That world has shifted. That was a 10-year-old world.

So we looked at the data. The bar for an IPO today in the US is north of 200 to 300 million. Gone are the days where you could take a company public, where you could raise... I remember when I was growing up in the industry, like 10, 15 years ago, an IPO is like 100 million of revenue or an IPO candidate. It doesn't exist anywhere. That world has shifted. That was a 10-year-old world.

There used to be a time, by the way, remember Yahoo when Yahoo went public? Yeah.

There used to be a time, by the way, remember Yahoo when Yahoo went public? Yeah.

There used to be a time, by the way, remember Yahoo when Yahoo went public? Yeah.

yahoo in public on like 10 20 million of revenue etc and like it was worth billions in them in the market those days are gone we now have very deep very liquid very large markets across the industry the other thing is the private markets are so big now that there are non-way there are other ways than going public of getting liquidity i i just don't know if this is that much i mean why are you solving a problem that is a really hard to solve and i would argue really probably doesn't matter

yahoo in public on like 10 20 million of revenue etc and like it was worth billions in them in the market those days are gone we now have very deep very liquid very large markets across the industry the other thing is the private markets are so big now that there are non-way there are other ways than going public of getting liquidity i i just don't know if this is that much i mean why are you solving a problem that is a really hard to solve and i would argue really probably doesn't matter

yahoo in public on like 10 20 million of revenue etc and like it was worth billions in them in the market those days are gone we now have very deep very liquid very large markets across the industry the other thing is the private markets are so big now that there are non-way there are other ways than going public of getting liquidity i i just don't know if this is that much i mean why are you solving a problem that is a really hard to solve and i would argue really probably doesn't matter