Well when you have - Founders getting to take cash out earlier - employees with golden handcuffs that could last forever - Questionable to outright illegal b

Well when you have - Founders getting to take cash out earlier - employees with golden handcuffs that could last forever - Questionable to outright illegal behavior being completely okay in the private market - Insane levels of founder control - massive VC firms willing to pump in enough late money to take pressure off earlier VCs Then why go public? Especially if a lot of companies seemingly can't survive the IPO completely intact. Just look at WeWork