Series D companies fundamentally resemble multi-billion-dollar publicly traded stocks
Dmitry Balyasny · Dmitry Balyasny – Multi-Strategy Platform at BAM (EP.341) · Oct 2, 2023 · at 1:17:03
Dmitry Balyasny, founder and CIO of hedge fund BAM, explains why multi-strategy hedge funds can naturally expand from public equity investing into growth venture capital.
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“So if you're looking at a private company, that's a growth company raising a series D round. Is that dissimilar from a publicly traded company with a couple billion dollar market cap that your public PMs are investing in? Most of the time, it's not that different.”
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