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Is it because going public is harder (probably true) or because nowadays, hot companies can more easily raise money without going public? It seems like compani
by skybrian 1y ago
Is it because going public is harder (probably true) or because nowadays, hot companies can more easily raise money without going public?
It seems like companies that are getting similar levels of hype to what Netscape and Google did could go public, but don’t want to, or not yet, anyway. I find it hard to believe that Anthropic or Stripe wouldn’t have successful IPO’s.
- bix6 1y agoBoth. It’s more expensive to go public and the market (institutions) is only interested in mega deals because they have so much capital to put to work. Large funds can give a company 100s of millions which enables them to stay private longer and not deal with public disclosures etc.