Going public resets a startup's progress to zero for the founders
James Beshara · 20 VC FF 031: James Beshara @ Tilt on Crowdfunding For A Mobile World, Finding The Perfect Co-Founder & Beer Pong! · Jan 22, 2016 · at 17:31
James Beshara, co-founder and CEO of Tilt, explains how public markets evaluate newly public technology companies like Facebook and Twitter.
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“Any company that goes public, it's, it, for the founders, the entrepreneurs, the leaders in that company, for the entire company, it's kind of like it all starts over again. It resets to zero. Now you've got to prove the world that prove the world wrong all over again. We've seen that with Facebook, and we're seeing that now with Twitter, it kind of, it's as if the previous seven, eight years never even happened.”
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