Bartlett predicts the tech IPO drought will end by late 2016
Logan Bartlett · 20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures · Apr 20, 2016 · at 20:03
Logan Bartlett is an investor at Battery Ventures. Discussing private market dynamics in early 2016, he forecasts that the recent slowdown in technology companies going public will end within six months.
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“I'm optimistic over the course of the next six months or so this drought that we've had over the last quarter in companies going public. I think we're going to see that short itself up,”
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