Absolutely Quote by Barry Diller

The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building…

— Dan Rosensweig

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…

— David Duffield

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

— Dan Rosensweig

The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care about what…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable.

— Vivek Ramaswamy

As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor,…

— John L. Flannery

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.…

— Marc Rich

The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make…

— Vinod Khosla

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

— Michael Ovitz

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

— David Duffield

Going public is one step in the life cycle of a company; it's not the last step.

— David Cohen

“The mechanisms that have traditionally been suggested for understanding companies can be divided into three broad categories: transaction costs, organizational structure, and competition in…

— Geoffrey West