Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.
In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.
There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.
With a private company, you've got to get into who's investing and what's the balance sheet like. So going public is a positive thing from the perspective of the sales organization.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
When companies are private, founders can share more about their future dreams with investors; report less; and the shares are illiquid, constraining short-term changes in valuation.
Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.
I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.
People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.
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