Barrett Cohn: "Companies Now Stay Private Long."

Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Barrett Cohn, the CEO and co-founder of Scenic Advisement, a SF based investment bank specializing in servicing the liquidity needs of high growth, late-stage technology companies, their investors, and founders. Formerly, Barrett served as a CEO of a children's educational media company and worked at Lehman Brothers in SF helping investors connect with non-public startups. He represented early Facebook and Twitter teams which led him to found Scenic to institutionalize the secondary market for private company stock. He also served as an advisor to Howard Schultz’s Maveron Ventures. In this podcast, we talk about the current state of private markets, its regulation and the trend of companies staying private for longer. We also address trends such as VC firms creating evergreen funds, regional differences in the tech ecosystem, the collapse of SVB and First Republic, and the booming AI market. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com