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Are you implying that public equity is some sort of government-owned entity? My best guess is that you are confused as to what the term "private equity firm" m

Are you implying that public equity is some sort of government-owned entity? My best guess is that you are confused as to what the term "private equity firm" means. Your post is so entwined with implications that I have no idea what you really mean.

TomMarius 7y ago
In my country public means government controlled, which of course includes any assets, yeah. I think as a founder of a startup with VC money and successfully investing with my own money for some time as well, I have a modest grasp on what a private equity firm is.
- kube-system 7y ago
  Is your startup planning to have an initial public offering? I’d be interested to hear how that works in your country.
  - TomMarius 7y ago
    How is that in any way relevant to ownership of assets?
    - kube-system 7y ago
      This is about private equity vs public equity, no?
      - TomMarius 7y ago
        In finance, equity is ownership of assets that may have debts or other liabilities attached to them. Publicly owned assets are going to further the goals of said owning public entity (just as if it was a private owner) and of its parents in the hierarchy.
        kube-system 7y ago
        You're conflating public/private ownership and public/private availability. "Private equity" doesn't mean "privately-owned equity". It refers to equity which is not publicly traded. Likewise, public equity doesn't mean "publicly-owned equity"... it means "publicly-traded equity". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_equity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_equity Also see definition 6(b): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public Again, I'm not sure if you live somewhere that this might be different, as you alluded above, but this is generally the case across predominantly English-speaking countries.
        TomMarius 7y ago
        Okay, seems like language misunderstanding. The system is just very slightly different where I live; the law systwm here is predominantly based on the Austrian one.
        mech1234 7y ago
        This language misunderstanding took longer to clear up than I thought it would.
        TomMarius 7y ago
        The problem might lie in that our laws are very precisely worded with words that could be translated as equity or other of these words as well, along with a dozen of other options. Translating these text is hugely painful to me (and other people as well, imho). While I am ok in conversational English, my level of more formal/financial English is not that good. I've just started attending a professional English course. :-)

TomMarius 7y ago

In my country public means government controlled, which of course includes any assets, yeah. I think as a founder of a startup with VC money and successfully investing with my own money for some time as well, I have a modest grasp on what a private equity firm is.

kube-system 7y ago
Is your startup planning to have an initial public offering? I’d be interested to hear how that works in your country.
- TomMarius 7y ago
  How is that in any way relevant to ownership of assets?
  - kube-system 7y ago
    This is about private equity vs public equity, no?
    - TomMarius 7y ago
      In finance, equity is ownership of assets that may have debts or other liabilities attached to them. Publicly owned assets are going to further the goals of said owning public entity (just as if it was a private owner) and of its parents in the hierarchy.
      - kube-system 7y ago
        You're conflating public/private ownership and public/private availability. "Private equity" doesn't mean "privately-owned equity". It refers to equity which is not publicly traded. Likewise, public equity doesn't mean "publicly-owned equity"... it means "publicly-traded equity". See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_equity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_equity Also see definition 6(b): https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public Again, I'm not sure if you live somewhere that this might be different, as you alluded above, but this is generally the case across predominantly English-speaking countries.
        TomMarius 7y ago
        Okay, seems like language misunderstanding. The system is just very slightly different where I live; the law systwm here is predominantly based on the Austrian one.
        mech1234 7y ago
        This language misunderstanding took longer to clear up than I thought it would.
        TomMarius 7y ago
        The problem might lie in that our laws are very precisely worded with words that could be translated as equity or other of these words as well, along with a dozen of other options. Translating these text is hugely painful to me (and other people as well, imho). While I am ok in conversational English, my level of more formal/financial English is not that good. I've just started attending a professional English course. :-)