Goyal: Tracxn Achieved IPO Internal Readiness in 2-3 Months Instead of 12-18
Abhishek Goyal · The Process & Preparation of IPO Ft. Tracxn Technologies Founders Neha Singh & Abhishek Goyal · Oct 25, 2022 · at 17:36
Tracxn co-founder Abhishek Goyal describes the timeline and readiness speed of preparing Tracxn's financial and legal systems for its IPO.
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“A lot of people advise us that, look, it's a three year process... And a lot of people said that first 12 to 18 months will just be internal readiness. So in our case, when we started working, we realized that within two to three months, that internal readiness is very high.”
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