Episode 11: ‘I don’t regret doing an IPO’ (despite the public scrutiny)

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