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Venture capital funds (which is what YC is very very roughly) don't do IPOs because a public company has to produce returns every quarter with some degree of re
by ajju 18y ago
Venture capital funds (which is what YC is very very roughly) don't do IPOs because a public company has to produce returns every quarter with some degree of regularity and VC returns are always very very skewed. I can bet YC will never do an IPO.
More importantly, you typically do an IPO to raise money for your operations. VC funds raise money from private investors. So it doesn't usually make sense for VC funds to do an IPO.
- gcheong 18y agoIt's not something they would rush into for the reasons you point to, but it's not unheard of (e.g Harris and Harris), and if the goal of YC is to maximize the number of companies they can fund then an IPO may make sense at some point.