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Hoggett: London Stock Exchange listing rules are now globally competitive
“We changed our rules last year. We are now on a par with anywhere else in the world in terms of the flexibility and usefulness of our listing rules. They hadn't actually been changed since the eighties in any material fashion.”
Stebbings: The London Stock Exchange is a terrible place for tech listings
“They just wouldn't list in London because it's a shit place to list.”
Singlehurst: LSE suffers from dual supply and demand crises
“I think it's a combination of there not being loads of amazing high growth companies in the UK, enlisted in the UK, so there's a supply problem, and I think there's a demand problem as well.”
Singlehurst: The London Stock Exchange is in a dire state
“Yeah, I do share the sentiment that we're in a dire state for the London Stock Exchange, and I think.”
Kanji: Darktrace suffered severe LSE discount before $5B privatization
“I think it was trading at huge, a huge multiple discount. Seven hundred thirty-two million of revenue, like I said, trailing, trailing, got privatized at five billion.”
Kanji: I tried to talk Wise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus out of LSE listing
“And then right after that, Tavit went public with Wise on the LSE, and I tried to talk him out of it. I said, go, go in America.”
Riparbelli: London Stock Exchange liquidity shortage is a disaster
“The London Stock Exchange, like, they need to fix that, like, they need to put some liquidity in the system. I don't know, I'm not a financier, so I don't know what they need to do to fix it, but I mean, that is a disaster, right?”
Hulme: Company HQ, employees, and IP create more value than listing location
“Given the choice between Picking where a company's HQ is, or where the bulk of the employees are, or where the IP is generated, or where it's listed, I'm taking the first three. They're way more valuable.”
Boland: Sage is London's only tech company worth over $10B
“There's only one London listed tech company worth more than ten billion, and that is Sage.”