Nicolas Berggruen Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The reason for looking at a public listing instead of private capital is that I have always enjoyed running a public limited company.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There are positives and negatives to publicly traded and private companies.

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.

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.

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

I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

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.

I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.

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.

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

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

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.