Caterina Fake Quotes

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

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

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

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

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

VCs like acquisitions as much as IPOs because the acquiring companies often can rationalize paying large multiples over the current valuation of the startup.

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.

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

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

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.

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

With tech startups, it's all loose-goosie. You raise money as you go, often from friends, family and investors.

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

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 wish I had invested in the series A of Snapchat and Uber.

I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their rhythm and go fund tech companies, and tech companies will go create jobs and employ a lot of people, so there's that aspect of Wall Street.

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.

It used to be that you would go in to see a CEO, and you would ask them, 'Is your company for sale?' and if they said 'No, we have no interest in selling,' that was sort of the end of the conversation.

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.

If you want to invest in early-stage technologies, putting a timeframe on it does behold you to Silicon Valley economics. You've got a certain time period where you have to make the money. And you have to invest that money whether you find good companies or not.

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.

Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money.

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.

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