This week, I speak with Henry Ward, Chief Executive Officer at Carta, a technology company that provides capitalization table management and valuation software for startups. They discuss founding a business, the growth of private markets, and his lobby efforts for retail investors to access private markets.
The firm manages cap tables, compensation, valuations, liquidity, amidst an assortment of other data for more than 50,000 companies, 8,500 investment funds, and over 2.5 million equity holders’ $2.5 trillion in company equity; they help facilitate $13 billion in secondary sales.
His current reading is here; A transcript of our conversation is available here Tuesday.
You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here.
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist, Charles Schwab & Co. Named “Best Market Strategist” by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, she is also on Barron’s “100 Most Influential Women in Finance” every year since the list’s inception.
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