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Hoggett: FTSE 100 daily free-float turnover exceeds S&P 500 and NASDAQ
“The percentage of the company's free float that is turning over in a given day is higher on the FTSE 100 than it is on the S&P 500 or the NASDAQ.”
Emil Michael: Uber's valuation under CEO Dara Khosrowshahi trails the Nasdaq
“The company's valuation Is lower today than it was when Dara took over. And even if you account for the macro environment, the Nasdaq's still up 50%, he's down 50%.”
Leone: Sequoia portfolio companies have created $6.5 trillion in market value
“We have been responsible somewhere around six and a half trillion of partnering opportunity, meaning the companies with which we partner have generated six and a half trillion of market cap. About a quarter of the NASDAQ, God knows how much of the NYSE in Hong…”
Hoggett: LSE briefly beat Nasdaq as world's top market by capital raised
“Capital market, you know, and this is the thing that is sort of forgotten in, for most of the first few weeks of January, we were the largest equity capital market in the world by capital raised, ahead of NASDAQ.”
Velez: LATAM stock exchanges remain dominated by century-old incumbents
“About 25, 30% of companies in the Nasdaq today didn't exist 23 or 30 years ago. If you look at Ivo Vest by Brazil and Mexico, there's still incumbents that existed a hundred years ago. So the opportunity for disruption, a lot of these markets exist today.”
Israel has more NASDAQ listings than Europe, China, and Japan combined
“You've got this country that's got, what, like, eight million people, and it's got more NASDAQ-listed companies than all of Europe, plus China, plus Japan combined.”
MercadoLibre IPO'd in 2007 Retaining Half Its 2000 Venture Capital
“We took the company public on Nasdaq in 2007. I was the CFO, so I led the charge there. We did that with half of the capital we had raised in 2000, still in the bank, and we had a very profitable business.”
PayPal Raised $100M at $500M Valuation Days Before the 2000 Crash
“The company had raised a hundred million at 500 pre at the height of the bubble. We literally closed the financing right at the beginning of April, 2000, I think, 1516 days before the Nasdaq started to slide.”