When Giants Don’t Go Public: Inside the $5 Trillion Private Tech Market
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This episode explores the dramatic shift of $5 trillion in tech value from public to private markets, examining why companies are delaying IPOs and how value creation has fundamentally changed. A16z's David George discusses the implications of this 10x growth in private market cap over the past decade for all stakeholders in the ecosystem.
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Why tech companies are stuck in permanent fundraising mode instead of going public
“It feels like they're always fundraising.”
are companies choosing not to IPO or delaying IPO because the public market is not that fun or because the private market has gotten so much richer, so much more liquid, etcetera, that that impulse to go public just isn't the same way as it might have been in a different generation. Yeah. This has kinda been a long running question in the market for a while now. But one thing I would just point out on the last point, it feels to me like companies in the private market, even though they're in the private market where, presumably, the pool of capital is smaller Yeah.
It feels like they're always fundraising. They're this is the other thing too that, like, it used to be when I started covering tech companies, it's like your series a round and series b round and c. Right. And now it just seems like this permanent round, especially with some of the AI companies Always B raising. Always raising. Anyway,
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