The Khanversation with Imran Khan
Sep 29, 2026 · 34 min · 10 segments
In this episode of The Khanversation with Imran Khan, Imran and co-host Lily Mae Lazarus sit down with John Tuttle, a partner at FutureCorp, an investment firm that aims to give public investors…
John TuttleGuest
Lily Mae LazarusHost
Imran KhanHost
I think that there are a lot of benefits to being public, just like there are benefits to being private.
And I think that when the public is not meddling in your business, you have a little bit more freedom in terms of who... you answer to as a founder.
And we have seen some fantastic private businesses, even on the younger side, be built that still don't have any desire in the near term to go public.
I don't think my generation has as much of an understanding of the value of the public markets as... people that are slightly older than me, including my partner who's six years my elder.
And so I do think that that is one thing that I notice, but I also think that they're kind of sick of the hype cycle.
And so they see trends like Robinhood that promote that you're going to be able to invest your own money and then they get frustrated because they're not seeing immediate returns, which is why I think these prediction markets are so popular because they're seeing immediate risk and reward or immediate risk and loss, right? And I would love to know from a macro perspective, from your perspective, now that you are not in the middle of it, when you are looking at what I think is best described as red hot IPO summer, what are you looking at? What has caught your eye? And what do you think people are not looking at enough? Because the tea leaves have not quite yet settled.
And the first is, and I'm going to come back to it at the end, I think we're living in this world where it's very binary, where people are like, you're public or you're not.
And I actually think we need to live in the world as it is, where that is a spectrum.
And we should think about making sure our regulations and our product sets in the markets can move among that spectrum.
I would say, look, young people have... plenty of reasons to be frustrated by the IPO market.
Look, there is a short-termism from companies trying to meet the quarter, but it's also from investors wanting immediate kind of stimulation, dopamine hits and returns that are there.
I think that there are a lot of benefits to being public, just like there are benefits to being private.
And I think that when the public is not meddling in your business, you have a little bit more freedom in terms of who... you answer to as a founder.
And we have seen some fantastic private businesses, even on the younger side, be built that still don't have any desire in the near term to go public.
I don't think my generation has as much of an understanding of the value of the public markets as... people that are slightly older than me, including my partner who's six years my elder.
And so I do think that that is one thing that I notice, but I also think that they're kind of sick of the hype cycle.
And so they see trends like Robinhood that promote that you're going to be able to invest your own money and then they get frustrated because they're not seeing immediate returns, which is why I think these prediction markets are so popular because they're seeing immediate risk and reward or immediate risk and loss, right? And I would love to know from a macro perspective, from your perspective, now that you are not in the middle of it, when you are looking at what I think is best described as red hot IPO summer, what are you looking at? What has caught your eye? And what do you think people are not looking at enough? Because the tea leaves have not quite yet settled.
And the first is, and I'm going to come back to it at the end, I think we're living in this world where it's very binary, where people are like, you're public or you're not.
And I actually think we need to live in the world as it is, where that is a spectrum.
And we should think about making sure our regulations and our product sets in the markets can move among that spectrum.
I would say, look, young people have... plenty of reasons to be frustrated by the IPO market.
Look, there is a short-termism from companies trying to meet the quarter, but it's also from investors wanting immediate kind of stimulation, dopamine hits and returns that are there.
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