private company

4 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2017 by Jyoti Bansal · across every show →

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Dec 8, 2017 positive
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Bansal: Operating public is healthier than staying private past 1,000 employees
“In IPOs and being public companies, it does bring some kind of discipline and rigor that you need at a larger scale. Like once you start getting that scale of like, you know, a thousand plus employees, I do think operating as a public company is healthier than…”
Jyoti Bansal Dec 8, 2017 ▶ 8:57 20VC: AppDynamic's Jyoti Bansal on The Sale vs IPO Process with AppDynamics' $3.7Bn Exit & The 3 Simple Things VCs Look For When Investing In Startups
Jun 28, 2023
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Hyman: Viewing private startups as special snowflakes hides bad financial metrics
“Don't Talk to yourself as a private company as if everything you do is different. The harm in doing that is then you can make an excuse for all of your metrics.”
Jennifer Hyman Jun 28, 2023 ▶ 19:29 Jennifer Hyman: Rent The Runway's Journey to $1.7B IPO; Lessons from Beyoncé & Estée Lauder | E1031 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 26, 2024 negative
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Imran Khan: Private firms raising money continually for liquidity is wrong
“If you're a private company and you don't want people's pay, like, don't want to deal with public market, I think that's an honorable thing to do if you make your business profitable and pay it back to other people's money, but constantly going raising money t…”
Imran Khan Aug 26, 2024 ▶ 20:27 Imran Khan: Why the IPO Market is Not Closed & Lessons From Taking Snap & Alibaba Public | E1194 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 7, 2025
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Garcia: Private companies avoid building resilience by hiding from tough times
“As a private company, what do you do when you go through a tough time? Like for the most part, what do you do? You don't talk about it because there's no forcing mechanism to make you talk about it. You just keep going. It's like, and so I think that you get t…”
Ernest Garcia Apr 7, 2025 ▶ 52:03 Carvana CEO & Co-Founder, Ernest Garcia: Building a $50B Company, Losing 99% and Coming Back · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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