Lafont: Large unicorn IPOs require $1B in revenue and breakeven path
Philippe Laffont · Ep11. Coatue Conference Recap, Tesla & ISS Controversy | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod · Jun 22, 2024 · at 37:28
Coatue founder Philippe Lafont joins hosts Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner to discuss IPO thresholds for mega-cap private tech companies like OpenAI.
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“There's two criteria as one is, can you get to a billion of revenue? Open AI would be check, check, check the box. But the second one is, do you have a sort of a break even or a path to break even?”
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