A lot of these companies are too big to be sold, said 1789’s Abrahimzadeh, whose firm is an investor in SpaceX. “So this is going to kick off a massive trend of IPO activity — yes, we’ve been saying that for years — but there are no more excuses in 2026.”“A lot of people over the last few years have felt the super high-value private companies don’t need to go public and maybe they’d never go public,” said Steve Studnicky, UBS Group AG’s co-head of Americas ECM. “Now, these companies are coming forward sayin ...