One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.
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There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of owners in a private company rather than by the dispersed and often uninterested shareholders of a public corporation.
There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.
I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.
I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.
It's a special thing to be a public company.
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.
Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.