The following is a transcript of an interview of Forge’s CEO conducted on “Trading 360” on the TD Ameritrade Network.

Interviewer: Thank you so much for being with us. Tell us a little bit about your company and where you know you stand when you're looking at this and speaking about this topic.

Forge CEO: Well, look, we have been innovating for the last several years the way private companies raise money and provide liquidity to their shareholders and employees. And we think that what's happened in the last handful of years really requires an infrastructure player to come into the market and make the market more transparent, more accessible, and more efficient. But there's a lot going on out there in the world, and we think the traditional IPO, as great of a year as we've had, and the last couple of years, we think the traditional IPO as it's known, is now dead.

Interviewer: Well, that's part of your business too, and helping these companies to have a further understanding. You yourself, I want to talk about your own SPAC merger that's occurring, right and this should be completed either the end of this year or early next year. What's your vision for your company?

Forge CEO: We had a lot of options and that's part of the theme that's going on in the market right now. A company can go public via direct listing, they can do a SPAC, you've seen with Rivian directed shares.

It was a great option for us because we felt like the public market investor could invest in a company like Forge as a proxy for the private markets. We really love the people in Motive Capital Corp. They were a bunch of industry experts led by Blythe Masters and we got to know them. And we felt like the flexibility of being able to understand the price and the valuation of the company before we went out and having that built into the deal, along with a little bit of shareholder, liquidity was the right format for us.

Interviewer: Is that is so different from an IPO. I mean, when you have an IPO and you have a roadshow they basically are trying to gauge what the value is of that company. I mean, that's how they come out with the IPO price, with the listing price, and they have to give their outlook right? But you think that the IPO is really going in the way of the background, right, because you have the technology and ecosystem for more of the private markets future.

Forge CEO: Yeah, I think if you're trying to raise money, or provide liquidity, we're now seeing a world where you can do that for years and years in the private market. But just to give you an example: a lot of people think snowflake’s IPO was really a great example of a successful IPO. But if you think about it, it was priced such that the company put balance sheet capital on at an allocation price, but the market priced the company at twice that value. None of the incremental value went to the company. So that's why direct listings have become such a popular topic of discussion. And I think SPACs are bringing companies to market that may not have the valuations of what you've seen in IPOs. The average IPO valuation in the last couple years is about 5 billion.

And I think public market investors want to see companies in the one to $3 billion range come public as well. And that's one of the reasons why we think SPACs have gained popularity.

Interviewer: Yeah, I think you're right about that because we always say whether or not a stock is priced to perfection, right, and in that case, shareholders and the company itself really lost out because there was way more demand. I mean, sometimes you could say it's the market environment that may drive the stock one way or the other. But there was certainly a lot of excitement around a name like snowflake and then you mentioned Rivian, which I thought was interesting. Tell me what your thoughts were. This was where if someone ordered--they had the 7% roughly for the direction share option here. So for example, if you pre ordered a Rivian truck, right, you gave $1,000 for that and one gentleman who got 175 shares at 70 bucks, it turned out to be $17,000. What did you think of that model overall?

Forge CEO: We'll see that's part of what I'm talking about. When you're looking at a company going public and allocating to their customers or their partners, you haven't seen that in a traditional IPO.

The allocations to shares were typically a syndicate that was led by an investment banker and everybody else had to wait until after it priced and started to trade and so I really like it. I think it gives a company the ability to change the dynamic of who participates in the wealth creation of an IPO. And I think a lot of CEOs, if you ask them, will tell you “hey, I'd love to reward the people that got me here, including my customers.” So directing allocations to customers, I think you're going to see more of that and you're going to see more bespoke liquidity models also where employees can trade. I saw the Expensify deal where the employees get to sell 15% on day one. So I think that's part of why directs again are popular and SPACs that have a negotiated liquidity provision.

Interviewer: And sometimes fluctuations can happen in a stock when it's the IPO lockup expiration, right. You know, as people on Wall Street, we always say, oh, you mark it on your calendar, you know, in six months that IPO lockup, those people have the opportunity to sell it. And that can really move a stock around too. So what's my takeaway here, in addition to your own exciting SPAC merger that's going to be completed and moving forward. What's my takeaway here for folks as they're watching? So are you saying there's no future for IPOs really? Or what should someone say? For the IPO, this and for the SPAC or the direct listing is better way?

Forge CEO: I think they're just a lot more flexibility. The IPO or companies going public is going to continue to happen. They're just going to do it through a bunch of different formats. But I'd also say if you're a public market investor, you're going to start looking at increasingly getting into these companies just before they're public. We saw this with Spotify back in 2018. Did the first one with Slack, we saw it with Palantir. So you're going to see it move into pre-IPO investing by public investors. And I think you're going to see more of that; there's 900 companies in the world that are now worth over a billion dollars or $3 trillion of valuation now locked up that's exploded in the last two years.

Interviewer: I have to go but I just thought of one other thing, and that is that sometimes people buy into SPACs right? They say, Oh, what a great company and then they get hit hard. I mean, I have to put the risk out there too. There's risk. You're not you know, the people who bring it are making money but that doesn't mean that there's no risk. Final thought quickly.

Forge CEO: We like to say that there's a rush to quality in these SPACs and if you don't bring a high quality company via a SPAC, then then you might want to think about staying home.

Interviewer: Kelly Rodrigues, of Forge Global. Thank you. It's great to see you. Thank you so much. Great to chat with you. I really appreciate it.

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