November 24, 2025

Why It’s So Difficult For Companies to Go Public: A CFO Explains the Process | The Real Eisman Playbook Episode 35

50 minutes

On this episode of The Real Eisman Playbook, Steve Eisman is joined by Amy Butte, the Chief Financial Officer at Navan. Amy was also the CFO of the New York Stock Exchange when it went public in the early 2000s. We explore what it means and how difficult it is to take a private company public.

00:00 - Intro

03:10 - Amy's Time as the CFO of The New York Stock Exchange

17:05 - How Navan Went Public

26:16 - What Navan Does

30:42 - What is a Road Show?

41:30 - How Young People Should Approach the Future

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