IPO Window
topic on 6 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
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9 statements about IPO Window, every show
Warrington: Venture capital lacks a natural exit conveyor belt during IPO droughts
“Unlike the buyout market, we don't have a conveyor belt. Again, the IPO window, the end game is stopped.”
Dye: An open IPO window only provides liquidity for ten companies
“The IPO window being open seems to be such an interesting signal for the market generally but it really only impacts, you know, 10 companies maybe, right? I mean, it's really reserved for, like, the best of the best, and so I don't think that's necessarily the…”
Eisenberg: The IPO market is wide open for realistic valuations
“I don't buy that the IPO window is closed. The IPO window is wide open. The question is, what's the price you're willing to take?”
Hulme: The tech IPO window will not open anytime soon
“Particularly since kind of the IPO window isn't open anytime soon.”
Gerstner: Tech IPO window is wide open, determined solely by price
“And I've been making this case that the IPO window is wide open. It's just a matter of price.”
Sacks: Tech M&A market is more closed than the IPO market
“The M&A window is even more closed than the IPO window, I would say.”
Rabois: IPO windows do not close; market success criteria shift
“So I don't believe that IPA windows really close or open. I think just the criteria for success is different in that, you know, what the bar is on, let's say revenue or what the bar is on your unit economics.”
Tech IPO Market Will Not Reopen Until Q1 2025
“I think this will be a twenty-twenty-five Q. One event, but the question is what will be enough to crack them open? As I said, I think twenty-twenty-five Q. One is when we really will start to see the IPO windows open again.”