Public Listing Quotes

Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.

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.

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

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

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 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.

Since social networks gained popularity extremely rapidly, there had been a debate as to whether social media was a fad. There are countless pieces of evidence now proving the contrary, among them the explosion in Twitter growth and Facebook's public listing.

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.

On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.

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

In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

I don't think I'd enjoy running a public company. We haven't needed to go to the market to fund expansion.

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 was very happy in Wipro; happier in Mindtree because I founded and took it public.

I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.

As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.

When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance.

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

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

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

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

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