William Smith – Author

How the pros spot winning new stocks before the crowd.

Practical, battle-tested frameworks to help experienced investors and advisors find high-potential new stocks, avoid traps, and capture asymmetric upside.

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About the Author

William Smith is celebrated as the “IPO King,” a title earned when his IPO mutual fund delivered an impressive 128% return. As Founder and CEO of Renaissance Capital, the leading IPO research firm serving the world’s largest institutional investors, he has spent decades meticulously analyzing over 11,000 IPOs and possesses an exceptional talent for spotting early winners before they capture mainstream attention.

Smith believes the greatest investment wins come from blending visionary understanding of technological convergence with disciplined, data-driven investing strategies previously reserved for Wall Street elites.

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THE STAKES

The largest generational wealth transfer in our lifetime is moving through New AI Stocks.

The Post-IPO window is three to five years. Closing fast.

Invested in AI
since ChatGPT launched

AI unicorns today

Private AI startups
racing toward IPO

+yrs

Max window to capture the wealth

Unlike the 1990s internet boom, this wave won't take a decade.

The wealth gets captured in the first three years after each company goes public.

Most investors will miss it.
Wait for the headlines — the gains are gone before they click "buy"
Chase the obvious names — paying ten years of growth on day one
Buy the post-IPO pop — and get crushed at lock-up expiration
Confuse marketing language in an S-1 with actual AI revenue
Skip the new stock window entirely — and watch the next decade's titans appear out of nowhere

The investors who saw the internet shift in 1995 didn't need to be geniuses. They needed a framework, the nerve to act, and the discipline to separate real businesses from hype.

The same is true now. Except faster.

Praise for The New AI Stock Edge

"... This book delivers a concrete roadmap for identifying durable AI winners."

—Mario Gabelli, Chairman & CEO of GAMCO Investors

"[This book] gives academics, professors, and students a rare, inside look at how institutional investors are actually evaluating AI-driven IPOs... classroom theory finally lines up with the decisions that move billions."

—Antonio Merlo, President, Drexel University

"Cuts through the noise of the AI boom to show where real value is created and how disciplined investors can act before the market catches up."

—Brian Choi, Chief Executive Officer, Avis Budget Group

"The New AI Stock Edge gives investors the institutional playbook to identify which AI companies will actually deliver — and which won't — in the critical first years after going public."

—Saumya Sutaria, M.D. Chairman and CEO, Tenet Healthcare Corp.

"As someone who took two companies public, I know firsthand how hard it is to separate signal from noise in newly public stocks. This book gives serious investors the frameworks to do exactly that."

—Dan Smith, CEO, Sycamore Networks and Cascade Communications

"Bill's disciplined "MUSCLE" approach to evaluating new companies mirrors the process that large institutional investors like myself used... This book is well worth your time to read it and to absorb its processes."

—Walt Price, Former Managing Director of Allianz Global Investors