Mark Pincus Quotes

If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.

Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.

I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.

You have to have in mind what you want when you go public. It's not just an end in and of itself. Suddenly, you have investors to satisfy. Investors who want - who demand - a return.

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.

I don't think I'd enjoy running a public company. We haven't needed to go to the market to fund expansion.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

Don't go public before you can be public.

The ultimate arbiters of the models of banking and the management of banking are the investors. It's the shareholders.

It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.

With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.

If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.

It's a special thing to be a public company.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

I think most CEOs think their stock is undervalued, probably.

Being a public company certainly doesn't stop you from taking a really long-term time horizon, but it does make it more difficult.