Episode 14

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5th Nov 2021

Part II Interview with Jeff Parks, CEO, Director & Co-Founder and Jimmy Vaiopoulos, CFO and Co-Founder of Stack Capital

Part II of a two-part interview with the Co-Founders of Stack Capital (TSX: STCK and STCK.WT)

Part II of our interview with the Stack Capital Group team Jeff Parks and Jimmy Vaiopoulos discusses building a public company board of directors and advisory board, getting pension funds involved in the IPO, why companies are staying private longer, sourcing and underwriting private investment opportunities, due diligence on growth stage and pre-IPO companies, redeploying capital after the IPO, generalist versus sector specialization, cryptocurrencies and blockchain views, the content creator economy and other emerging spaces, life as a public company, overcoming the skeptics, looking ahead and outlook for the future.

Part I of our interview on ATLalts

Part I focuses on the formation of the company, the decision to form an investment holding company versus a traditional private investment fund to invest in growth-stage, late stage and pre-IPO companies, and the steps to taking Stack Capital public on the Toronto Stock Exchange

For more information on Stack Capital Group please see the resources below:

Corporate Overview

Stack Capital Website 

Stack Capital News 

Portfolio 

LinkedIn 

Twitter 

Instagram 

Press Release - SpaceX Investment

Press Release - Bolt Financial Investment

Ringing the Bell on the TSX

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Andres Sandate is the host of ATLalts. Andres has extensive knowledge of alternative investments with professional experience working in asset management, capital markets, securities, and investment banking going back nearly 20 years. He has held senior leadership roles working in private credit, hedge funds, private equity real estate, multi-asset alternative investment and placement agents. Andres is a Registered Financial Advisor with Gramercy Park Wealth Advisors, LLC and GPWA, LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC and holds the Series 7, 66, and 79 FINRA licenses. He is Founder and CEO of Endurance Strategies, LLC (www.endurancestrategies.com) and President and Member of the Board of Directors of the Southeastern Alternative Funds Association (www.theSEAFA.com). Andres earned an MBA and a BS from The University of Kansas and is a native of Newton, Kansas. Andres and his wife Heidi (McElroy) Sandate have three school-aged children and reside in Smyrna, GA (Atlanta). Email andres@atlalts.com