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I was kind of talking about each of the things, each of the demand buckets for IPOs, but you

really got to, you put them together, right? And so the reason we might be having these big pops

is because you have the enthusiasm or you have the

hype cycle that draws in some people. Then you have the kind of stable demand for IPOs that's

kind of maybe that event driven. And then once it starts moving, you now have the meme stock

investors that watch the momentum much closer than they used to

and are familiar with stocks that trade are about trading crypto.

Even as Iran and Israel fire missiles at each other and traders worry about disruptions to oil supplies, a number of companies

have been braving the public markets with IPOs.

Strangely, many beginning with the letter C, Corweave, Circle Internet Group, and CHIME

Financial have enjoyed dramatic success despite the rumblings of World War III.

Yeah, this all seems kind of oddly hopeful despite everything that's going on.

I mean, look, we've been talking about an IPO drought for a very long time recently,

but maybe finally we're getting to a stage where companies can somehow see through

the warring geopolitics, everything else kind of looming over markets and actually

convince people to back their vision of the long-term future, right?

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