Amar Bose Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.

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 a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage.

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.

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

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

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

I went public in 2002 in America, and do you know what Wall Street valued my concession in Macau at? Zero.

There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs.

The vast majority of companies don't go public and mint dozens of millionaires. And most companies don't go around doling out stock options; private companies tend to be very tight about ownership.

Facebook could have gone public whenever it wanted. We decided the right time was 2012. It could have easily been 2010 or 2014.

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.