IPO

“Facebook actually had to buy more patents before its IPO, because the investment bankers handling the IPO said, you don't have enough patents. This will make it hard for us to do the IPO because patent pending represents potential.”

“If you are a really successful tech company or startup, you will need to go with one of those firms when you are getting ready for your IPO, or when you are dealing with the deal that you finally cut with a venture capital company, and not before. Because thos…”

“If your eventual goal is to go public, and almost every tech company and startup is eventually to go public, at some point you're going to need to be a C Corp. And if you're going to go public and do an IPO, you're going to need to be a C Corp incorporated in …”

“The real mechanism for going public isn't for you and the officers and the founders to cash out the original shareholders. It's really About raising capital in order to be able to sustain the growth of the company and to, you know, hyperscale, hopefully hypers…”

“The problem is in application, when you're given money too early before you maybe got your product market fit or other key customer listening metrics you are then trying to accelerate, because once you give the money, it's a timer. You have to get a return on …”

“So if you take a company at one million dollars and you have them grow six percent month over month for the seven year median to IPO time, you get one hundred thirty three million dollars.”

“Every investment I make, I think has the potential of becoming a unicorn or an IPO, but I know from statistics and reality that stuff's going to happen.”