Kelly Rodriques
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174 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Jun
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Joining us right now to discuss all of this is Kelly Rodriguez, the Forge CEO.
We see a world where the private market opens up and is accessible to any U.S.
and global investor.
There's 19 companies in the private market AI basket.
These companies have grown on average 300 percent.
No.
Look, I think that, first of all,
Being a private company CEO for most of my career and then being a public company CEO for three years, I recognize the job is incredibly different.
It's much less fun.
You're not doing the same... Hold on, hold on.
Turning into an investment manager primarily as a public company CEO is a very different job
than being a visionary, product first, first principles business.
When you become a public company CEO, everything changes.
And I would say in the world we're in now, the kind of capital you can raise, the kind of capital that was represented in the very last discussion, allows you to extend your private life.
SpaceX, a private company for 24 years.
But the reality is these SPVs that are now emerging because these companies are getting so big is because a market's trying to happen.
And a company like SpaceX has done this extraordinarily well.
They've run essentially liquidity programs for almost a decade.
because there's so much pent up interest in both being an investor and getting liquidity for some of the reasons that Gavin was mentioning.
So I think what we see now is the next phase of this.
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