Julie Wainwright Quotes

Any company of my size cannot live without thinking it's possible to go public one day.

One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.

Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

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

We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

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

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.

I took IMAX public back in the early '90s.

For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it's the start of purgatory.

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.

For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it.

We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

There will come a time and place it will be appropriate for us to consider going public.

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

You go public because you want access to capital in the form of debt and equity.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone 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.

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

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

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