In this episode of Investor Connect, we welcome Jeffrey Stewart, Managing Director at GPO Fund, who shares his global IPO thesis and why he believes capital markets are undergoing their biggest structural shift since 2000, driven by globalization, technology, demographics, geopolitics, and regulation. Jeffrey explains how companies staying private too long can create brittle capital structures, make it harder to recruit talent, complicate acquisitions, and misalign investors, while going public can simplify the cap table, lower the cost of capital, and raise credibility and visibility. He also discusses why companies like Oracle and AOL went public earlier in past decades, what changed in the US markets (including decimalization, regulation, reduced research, and litigation), and how GPO Fund builds diversified international investor bases to help founder-led technology companies accelerate global expansion and IPO readiness, highlighting the growing role of emerging middle-class capital, AI-driven market efficiency, and evolving tokenization and settlement trends. Visit GPO Fund at http://www.gpofund.com/ Reach out to at http://www.linkedin.com/in/stewartjeffrey, and on x.com/UrgentSpeed ________________________________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: http://investorconnect.org Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/ For Investors check out: https://tencapital.group/investor-landing/ For Startups check out: https://tencapital.group/company-landing/ For eGuides check out: https:/_/tencapital.group/education/ For upcoming Events, check out https://tencapital.group/events/ For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group Please follow, share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of Bensound.

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