Scott Bok
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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I mean, I thought about subtitles for the book that would be something like life cycles of Wall Street Firms and the people.
Who run them because, you know, we don't go forever either.
Right.
And I thought, you know, for the next chapter of Green Hill, I think being part of a strong global international bank like Mizuho would be good.
Yeah, I thought.
So six months after they said, Would you have a cup of coffee?
I sent back a message through that intermediary saying, Yes, I would have a cup of coffee.
Well, here is sort of the the dirty little secret of the IPO market, which is if you want to crystallize and collect shareholder value, a very good way of doing it is to take your company public.
We were the first of our kind to do that.
I s idea sort of came to me one summer when I was doing work for a client in a in an unrelated industry and I thought, Hmm, I wonder if we could go public.
We decided if we had one more good year or
We're gonna do that.
So on January 2nd, 2004, I called up Goldman Sachs and others and said, Hey, would you consider taking us public?
And that's a great way to crystallize value, realize value worked out great for our early founders for sure.
Being a public company is not nearly as much fun as going public.
Is going public.
Yeah.
And you know, and in fact, I mentioned in the book part of my thought process when I ultimately decided that we would sell, become part of Mizuho.
You know, the number of publicly traded companies in America.
in the lifetime of our firm fell in half.
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