David Talbot Quotes

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.

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

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.

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

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.

As Looker got larger, the talented people we hired started to see things that we couldn't. And what had looked like a company the three of us could run out of our houses for a few hours a day became something bigger. Much bigger.

Raising capital is not the toughest part. The toughest part is building a great team and making sure it's growing with the company.

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

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

As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know.

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.

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

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

I think Salesforce, going public very early on before they were profitable, it made a lot of sense for them because it got customers comfortable that these guys were going to have capital and be transparent about their business.

We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.

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.

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

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.