Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

I think going public is a really smart thing to do.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 hope we’re on the road to more truth-telling to investors.

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

I wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.

As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.

Going public is one step in the life cycle of a company; it's not the last step.

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