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...as a as a as a public company. We're shareholders in Epic Games. And that that's been private since 1992. And I once asked Tim Sweeney, the founder of that company, like, you know, how he thinks about that. And he had quite an interesting answer. He
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...public company, it may not be worth it for a lot of folks at this point. You're never gonna get the interest level from investors.
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...public, and we need more m and a. So let the games begin, I think. Literally, next year is gonna be like a starter's pistol for m and a teams at all these giant companies who are going to be able to call somebody in Washington, who they might know or
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...a company that would have gone public fifteen years ago,
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...public company. What are some of the things you figured out along the way that work today that didn't say five or ten years ago? The collaboration and the culture has always been there. It's not even now versus then. It's we really don't like running
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...a public company doing this than it was being late stage. It's not that much more work, but HubSpot's a $30,000,000,000 company. So maybe the bar should just be high. So you don't have to deal with these issues. If you hit your numbers, if you go go
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...company? So we went public for a couple of reasons and I think they've all worked. Number one, we have a much better brand as a public company because our private equity business is not the same private equity business as KKR and Blackstone and other
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...public company now than it was twenty years ago. I think the biggest thing is the private capital markets are deeper and more liquid than before, so there's less of a need for a company to go public until they need much, much, much, much more capital
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Being a public company, generally speaking, gives you access to more capital, exposes you to really smart investors to get engaged with. So, there's lots of things to like. There's some investors out there that will only invest in public equities and
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...CEO. Being a public company, generally speaking, gives you access to more capital, exposes you to really smart investors to get engaged with. So, there's lots of things to like. There's some investors out there that will only invest in public equitie
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...How about the challenges from an LP perspective of needing to serve a different constituency and shareholders as a public company that may not be the case as a private company? Big challenge for sure because when you're focusing on LPs, limited partn
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...a public company. It's really hard. It's not just the reporting requirements that you have. It's you you can have people owning your shares for all sorts of reasons that are misaligned with what you're trying to do as a as a company. You have to do e
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...challenges in going public. And I guess the one we always hear is like, oh, you have to file quarterly paperwork. Like, not the paperwork, which I actually sympathize with because I hate filling out forms and things like that. But, like, what are the
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...public markets are both at the same time the most attractive place in the world for a company where it has the ability to be memed or consumer loved like never before. But also at the same time, be the single most hellish spot on Earth. And it's both
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...public market valuations. You know, the valuations that did Anthropic and OpenAI and some of the others are getting are historically public market only valuations. And like you said, you you Aswan's live. Anyone can read it. I wouldn't want people re
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...a public company. So if you've raised a series g, that means, gosh darn, just tell me every quarter what you're doing even if you don't put it through an SCC filing.
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“The hidden costs of going public that every founder needs to know”
...as a public company, everything happens out in the open. There is a very predictable rhythm to reporting on a quarterly basis, especially if you wanna attract, you know, kind of global investors as as
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...public company, it may not be worth it for a lot of folks at this point. You're never gonna get the interest level from investors. You need the breadth and scale to be able to do that. Now the benefits, it's been an amazing unifying currency for us.
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