In this Australian Investors Podcast episode, Owen Rask sits down with Adam Myers to unpack one of the biggest shifts in modern investing: more of the value in the world’s best companies is now being created before they ever reach the stock market. Using SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Canva and Waymo as examples, they explore why private markets matter more than ever for investors trying to understand where long-term wealth is really being built.
Adam explains why retail investors rarely get direct access to these deals, how large institutions and well-connected allocators tend to dominate the best opportunities, and what has changed since the days when public market investors could buy into companies much earlier in their growth journey. They also discuss how AI is accelerating this shift, from infrastructure and data platforms through to physical AI, and why diversified exposure matters more than trying to bet on a single winner.
If you’ve ever wondered whether public market investors are arriving too late to the party, or how listed vehicles can provide access to private companies without the usual complexity, this episode will help. Owen and Adam also cover portfolio construction, liquidity, risk, and why the private-to-public transition may become one of the defining investing themes of the next decade.
