For the next conversation, deal-making for the next decade, going public, taking private, and everything in between,

please welcome moderator Stephen Bertoni, assistant managing editor, founders Forbes, and panelist Nelson Griggs, President Nasdak,

Mahal Katz, head of investment in corporate banking,

Mizuo Americas, and Rowan Oza, co-founder and managing partner, Kavu Consumer Partners.

Hello everyone really excited for this panel this group up here is kind of the if you're a

company it's the life cycle or the stages of a company.

Rohan's the VC you have to win over.

Mahal's the big eye banker that's going to, you know, build you and take you public and then

Nelson, you're the final boss.

You're the, if you make it to Nelson on

Nasdaq you're in you're in good shape it's good.

Dealmaking in the next decade this should be called deal-making in the next

ten weeks I'll start with Rahan down at the end. Tell me what is the climate right

now? What is the deal-making situation? I think it's a tale of two cities.

Rewind four years ago.

I think, you know, deals are getting made plentiful.

You had a great idea you got funding.

You had a half basic idea.

You still got funding.

Because there was so much money out there

that people felt they had to deploy it and so

everyone was just getting capital in.

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