complete nonsense and FUD. I would argue that private equity has had a longer deleterious effect on product development, and also some IPOs have turned out dis

complete nonsense and FUD. I would argue that private equity has had a longer deleterious effect on product development, and also some IPOs have turned out disastrous, but it isn't a hard and fast rule to say that a company, once it goes public, automatically turns against its userbase.