Scott Bok

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Odd Lots · Scott Bok on How Bankers Spread the Gospel of Capitalism · 19 May 2025 podcast

But if you don't manage it well, your stock price will go down and we will buy you.

Uh and then you will be out of jobs and we will take over and we will run it better than you do.

Yeah.

And that market for corporate control created a discipline on companies that they had to try to maximize shareholder value because they

If they didn't do that, they would get bought.

fifty, yes.

The book certainly tells the story of the evolution of our industry.

Again, going back, we were a pretty unique business for a long period of time.

There were a lot, there's a whole chapter in there about all the many firms that followed us, particularly once our IPO not only was a success, but quadrupled in share price over the first 18 months.

So we were worth $2 billion and still not many more than 100 people, including, you know, the receptionists and everybody else.

So the sector got more crowded, right?

were more players.

And I thought what made our firm so successful at the beginning was we had a different strategy.

And so you always have to think about what's the right strategy, not for the last five or 10 years, but for the next five or 10 years.

And so having had many, many opportunities to to sell the firm over the years and really not showing any interest in any of them, I talk about a lot of them in the book.

There are many of them that are spelled out there, but I never had any interest at all, really didn't even have much of a serious

Meeting with anybody, but you know, the Mizuho people through an intermediary approached me.

And again, I had no interest, my took my typical stance.

And I just started to rethink things, you know, coming out of kind of the latest, the pandemic crisis, you know, seeing the industry go through another difficult time.

Also, frankly, you know, my own uh personal situation.

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