Sarbanes Oxley
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Sam Lessin: Sarbanes-Oxley made public markets too annoying when private money exists
“Everything going back to Sarbanes-Oxley and like the public markets have just become too fucking annoying for anyone to want to deal with. And so everyone's like, why would I deal with the public markets, right? And like, there's plenty of private money. So li…”
Srinivasan: Sarbanes-Oxley suppressed IPOs and forced tech companies to stay private
“Sarbanes-Oxley in the early 2000 which was passed in the wake of Enron. That was the intent to stop Enron. So what it actually did stopped IPOs. So the number of public companies has just declined, the number of IPOs has declined, and tech companies started go…”
Hazlett argues government regulation treats all public companies as bad
“Probably it's the government oversight that believes all businesses are bad. And so you're paying the price of bad companies. Good companies pay the price of bad companies.”
Marshall: Scope 1–3 emissions compliance costs are projected to exceed Sarbanes-Oxley
“It's going to be complicated, and the estimated cost of compliance for scope one, scope two, and scope three is expected to exceed Sarbanes-Oxley.”
Rosenthal: Companies Stayed Private for Opacity and Profit, Not Sarbox
“Sarbanes actually raised the cost and complexity of being a public company. No doubt. I think, though, probably not as much as the stay private longer proponents were saying. And this might be related to what you're saying. I suspect, again, to the incentives …”
Earl: Chevron uses Agiloft for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance tracking
“Chevron needs to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. That, in turn, requires auditability. It requires a mechanism for tracking how Chevron, how each individual in the company is addressing those requirements. Again, manage through Agiloft.”