Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable.

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

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.

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.

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

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 think going public is a really smart thing to do.

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 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.

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.

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 don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

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

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

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

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

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.

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.