Every company that goes public has a story that never makes it into the prospectus: the pitch meetings that went sideways, the pricing call at midnight, the first trade, and the quarters that followed. IPO Stories is a podcast about those stories, told by the people who lived them — founders, CEOs and CFOs who took their companies to the public markets.
Each episode is a single conversation about a single listing: why the company chose to go public, how the process really worked from the inside, what surprised them, and what they would tell the next founder standing where they stood.
The show is hosted by Per Einar Ellefsen and Gautier Rousseau, co-founders of Amundsen Investment Management, who have spent their careers investing in IPOs and equity capital markets transactions.
New episodes are published on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you took a company public and want to tell the story, or just want to get in touch, reach out to the hosts on LinkedIn.
Per is co-founder and CEO of Amundsen Investment Management. Prior to founding Amundsen, Per was Global Head of Equity Enhanced Indexing at Norges Bank Investment Management (the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund), where he oversaw the management of the fund's $700bn equity index portfolio, invested across 9000+ companies globally. Per is an engineer by training, with a Master of Science from Ecole Polytechnique in France and MIT in the US. Per serves as a member of AMF's consultative committee on Disclosures and Corporate Finance, FTSE Russell’s EMEA Regional Advisory Committee, and Euronext Oslo's index advisory committee.
Gautier is co-founder and CIO of Amundsen Investment Management. Prior to founding Amundsen in 2021, Gautier was a Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for overseeing NBIM (the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund)'s IPO investments and Equity Capital Markets activity. He started his career at BNP Paribas and as an ECM banker at Goldman Sachs before working as an investment manager in the French private equity fund Activa Capital. Gautier has a degree in Accounting & Finance from the London School of Economics and a Master in Business Administration from INSEAD.