Kelly Rodriques

Chief Executive Officer, Forge Global · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kelly Rodriques leads Forge Global, a marketplace providing trading infrastructure, data, and liquidity solutions for private company secondary shares. Over his career in financial technology, he served as CEO of PENSCO Trust Company and Totality, and founded the fintech venture firm Operative Capital.

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3 assertions · 1 opinion · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, 2 are not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Kelly argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Rodriques: SpaceX has run liquidity programs for almost a decade
“They've run essentially liquidity programs for almost a decade.”
Kelly Rodriques Jun 7, 2026 ▶ 10:59 Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel

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Everything Kelly Rodriques said on All-In that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Rodriques: Closed-end fund asset valuations for private equities carry no bearing on reality
“Now, now, the closed-end funds, Are a very different bet because you're betting on FOMO. Because if you look at the underlying value of some of the assets in those closed-end funds, they have no bearing to reality of what those underlying shares are actually w…”
Kelly Rodriques Jun 7, 2026 ▶ 21:16 Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
Assertion Open · timeframe Jun 2029
Rodriques: $500-minimum private equity funds with SpaceX launching for unaccredited investors
“However, there are products coming to market. We can talk about this in detail later, that have 60 companies, including SpaceX, that are listed products for unaccredited, 500 dollar minimums, and that capital for those funds will be the underlying...”
Kelly Rodriques Jun 7, 2026 ▶ 20:47 Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rodriques: Neura Robotics has reached $100 million in revenue
“Big investors. Hundred million revenue. Kicking ass.”
Kelly Rodriques Jun 7, 2026 ▶ 36:16 Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel
Assertion Supported
Rodriques: SpaceX has run liquidity programs for almost a decade
“They've run essentially liquidity programs for almost a decade.”
Kelly Rodriques Jun 7, 2026 ▶ 10:59 Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Why Secondary Markets Are Eating the IPO | All-In Liquidity Secondary Markets Panel Jun 7, 2026 5m
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