Ivan Glasenberg Quotes

The question for Dropbox is whether, when they run out of private sources for funding, they will be able to maintain that valuation when they go to public sources for funding and their valuation is set on the public markets.

Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.

I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

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.

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

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.

There was a time when a company could not sell its shares to the public unless its revenues were growing and it was turning a profit. Companies that lost money were deemed too risky for public investors.

I've had two IPOs: with Etsy in 2015 and Cloudera in 2016. There have also been a ton of trade sales in my portfolio.

I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.

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

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

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

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

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.

Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

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

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.

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

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

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

We're very much focused on full shareholder-value return. We have to get our stock moving. But I won't do something in the short run that I don't feel is right for the long run. That, I've watched many CEOs do.