Carta CEO Henry Ward on Private Credit & Private Markets

Masters in Business

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Barry speaks 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.

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1:16.9	This week on the podcast, yet another extra special guest.
1:20.7	Henry Ward is CEO and co-founder of Carter.
1:24.4	They're the company that keeps track of cap tables, compensation, valuation, liquidity
1:29.5	for over 50,000 private companies. They work with 8,500 investment firms and over 2.5 million
1:37.0	equity holders to track all of this crucial information. It's kind of hard to imagine that they were doing this manually with
1:46.1	stock certificates before Carter came along and digitized everything and put it all in the cloud.
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