How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
The course of business shapes public opinion.
I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
I'm not in the business to make people aware of me, and publicists are very expensive - they're $3,500 a month! I don't want to spend that kind of money so I can get a stupid article in 'Interview' magazine.
When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.
I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.
You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
The public is a part of my real life.
Well, anything you want to make public is your public business.