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Riding Shotgun: Mega IPOs and Founder Control

September 11, 2026 · 14 min

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Founders are increasingly keeping outsized voting control when companies like SpaceX go public. In this episode, we explore how this growing trend, known as control skew, has lined up with performance across a decade of major US IPOs.


Host: Gabriela de la Serna, MSCI R&D

Guest: Jonathan Ponder, MSCI R&D

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