The typical founder wants to go public, and that's what VCs want too. But preserving optionality for an acquisition is valuable too, so how do you do that? That's the subject of my latest podcast for Greylock's Greymatter.https://greylock.com/reid-hoffman-ma-or-ipo/ …
An IPO sounds horrible. Running a public company has so many constraints. Reid, why do you think more startups don't aim to just be huge and profitable? This was how things in the early to mid 1990s were done.
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“Huge and profitable” never made a fund.
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Money. Make millions vs billions.
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