Kapil Sibal Quotes

The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to buy his stock.

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

This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.

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

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.

I want to control the company, but I don't know how life goes. We are already a big company, and the larger our capitalization is, the lower goes the threshold for control.

To a large extent, equity investors put their hard-earned capital into the hands of management and count on it being employed skilfully and honestly. When that doesn't happen, losses typically follow.

The reason for looking at a public listing instead of private capital is that I have always enjoyed running a public limited company.

If I ever took a business public, I wouldn't want to take the shares off the table. I don't want people thinking I'm doing it just to make money and then going to run for the hills. I think that's a very important distinction.

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

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.

In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.

I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong.

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time.

I want to go public because I have the right reason to go public - because the benefits outweigh the costs.

Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives.