Episode 11: ‘I don’t regret doing an IPO’ (despite the public scrutiny)
Update: 2025-09-26
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Join Jonathan Boyers, Head of Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Finance, and Chris Maguire, Executive Editor of BusinessCloud, as they sit down to interview Steve Oliver, Co-founder of musicMagpie.
In this episode, Steve Oliver discusses:
The pros and cons of musicMagpie’s 2021 IPO, which gave the company a £208m market cap and delivered a 12x multiple for investor NVM—but also brought unwelcome public scrutiny
The 2024 decision to take musicMagpie private with a £10m sale to AO
Handling press leaks
The collapse of Music Zone in 2006
Angel investing
Tackling homelessness
His love of Man City
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