There's an old saying "Success is a journey, not a destination". I mention that because, if you give yourself a bar [ie go public] now, you may change your min

There's an old saying "Success is a journey, not a destination". I mention that because, if you give yourself a bar [ie go public] now, you may change your mind later or fall into the spiral of continually raising that bar before ever crossing it. As an example of the former, you may see that your company can thrive without public funding (eg koch enterprises). As an example of the latter, you may measure success in terms of a favored lifestyle [which will always scale up to your income level -- you can never get too many rooms in a mansion or too many acres in an estate or too many floors in an apartment complex.