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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.

This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.

It's a special thing to be a public company.

There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives.

Don't go public before you can be public.

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.