In one 25-company batch of Y Combinator (s2009) there was Stripe, Mixpanel, Olark, WePay, Lockitron, Listia, Bump (now Google Photos) and RethinkDB. Geeeez.
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that's fair. i'm just fascinated by the trend of staying private despite being in the fiscal state to go public.
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Look at Snapchat and Blue Apron. You have a couple bad quarters and you get wrecked. Or you stay private and take SoftBank money and it's all good.
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Apron has big problems it isn't like more PE would have helped. Snap had hugely successful IPO they raised a ton.
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Yeah up to them for sure. But so many biotech and even small cap tech did amazingly thanks to public markets. Many paths here.
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Yes basically this. What’s a reason other than they’ve hit [x] arbitrary milestone?https://twitter.com/austenallred/status/937842681409019904 …
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More precisely: What reason(s) outweigh the clear downside / risks to mgmt?
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Well, the upside is liquidity and public market dollars
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If they’re at the point where it matters, sr mgmt can do a secondary.
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Public markets rock don't be a hater Alex.
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Lol Adam just wants access
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We all should none of us are rich enough to benefit otherwise. Alex says he is sworn defender of millennials well PE taking all the gains certainly doesn't help them :)
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