public company
8 statements across 8 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Feb 26, 2015 by Lisa Wu · across every show →
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Feb 26, 2015
Lisa Wu: Lifestyle businesses require the same 24/7 effort as IPO-bound startups
“Time is all of our most valuable asset. And whether you create a company that is a profitable lifestyle business, or one that eventually goes public one day, it still takes the same amount of effort, which is 24 seven of your time.”
Dec 8, 2017 positive
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…”
Mar 20, 2020 negative
Mar 14, 2022 positive
Friedberg: The Production Board will eventually become a publicly traded company
“You know, I would hope that we would be a public company. I think that that's important because it would give us access to capital markets to raise additional capital to have equity to a currency we could use, a publicly traded currency to do things with.”
Mar 26, 2025
Feb 7, 2026 positive
Cohen: Public status gives payments companies a major capital advantage
“In the payments business, I think there is huge, huge advantage to be a public company in the way that you are actually raising capital for that part of the business compared to being a private company. I think if you kind of go too long in the payments busine…”
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Zinman: Public software valuations will rise as incumbents demonstrate AI acceleration
“I think the cycle is going to shift once you know, like fungus after the rain, you're going to see another public company change and accelerate, another one accelerate, and then investors are going to say you know, it happens, so let's rethink who else is goin…”