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IPOs go ‘mega’ – should we be worried?

The Business

Show Notes

The three largest share listings ever are about to happen. SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are set to sell their shares to the public, and each will be valued at one trillion dollars or more.

On this episode of the Business, we ask: How will the markets find the money? Should we be worried about the world stock market being even more dominated by a tiny handful of companies? And will we ever see something like this in the UK?

Presenters: - Hannah Prevett, associate business editor of The Sunday Times - Dominic O’Connell, Times columnist and Times Radio business reporter

Guests: Maike Currie, VP of personal finance at PensionBee Check Warner, co-founding partner of Ada Ventures

Producer: Hope Federico Executive Producer: Miriam Hall Photo credit: Getty Get in touch: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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