Private Company
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Horowitz: Governments should enforce rules while private firms audit AI capabilities
“And I think the government is particularly Ill suited to do the latter, particularly over time. It's just not a good government function, but they're very good at setting the rules because they can enforce the rules. So I think that that's kind of a combinatio…”
Blankfein: Public markets penalize volatile earnings with lower valuation multiples
“In a private company, you care about the E, the earnings. In a public company, you care about P.E. And if you have volatile earnings, your shareholders don't like that. They reward you with a lower multiple.”
Coogan: Private companies should have little say over government product use
“My assumption is that, ah, the private company should have very little say in how the government uses those products”
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…”
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…”
Gurley: There is no way to accurately value a private company
“There's no way to value a private company. So, so you start with this problem that, that how would you go about saying what it's worth?”
Gurley: Slow-Growth Private Companies Avoiding IPOs Are Acting Like Ostriches
“I often hear people on a board say something like, well, good thing we didn't go public, a good thing we aren't public. But they're sitting on the board of a private company that's at a hundred and fifty million in revenue and growing 10%. Like, you're, you ju…”
Thomas: California climate rules impact private firms more than SEC regulations
“SEC is here, but California is kind of probably more impactful from a private company perspective.”
Gordon: Private companies can execute disruptive operational changes all at once
“In a public company setting, you might blend into that over time. In a private company setting, if it's the right thing to do, you do it all at once and accept the fact that that could create a little bit of disruption, but you're doing it for that long-term g…”
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.”
Lemkin: Private Companies Not Raising Capital Can Shelter From Market Swings
“It's a benefit of being private is that you can duck out some of these issues if you don't need to raise capital.”
Chamath: Fusion innovation will occur in government labs, not private companies
“I would rather the next ten billion dollars go into energy efficiency HVAC than fusion because a fusion exists and b I think it's gonna happen at an innovative bench scale level by the government and not by a private company.”
Cole: Companies cannot easily shrink and restructure while public
“We needed to get smaller to get bigger. We needed to shrink the business step back. And we couldn't do that as a public company, partially because of my personal visibility, but as a private company, you can do those things.”
Matt Levy: Startups build boards with skill sets two to three stages ahead
“When a private company is looking at building a board, they are looking to you know, to bring in that skill set and bring it in at a level that's, you know, two or three times beyond where that company is now.”
Evans: Outsiders cannot evaluate $1B private valuations without financial disclosures
“But if a company does a private round, Add a valuation of a billion dollars. You don't know what any of the financials look like. And so it's too easy sitting on the outside to say, well, that's a good run, but that's a bad number. You're actually, to be corre…”
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…”