“Going Public isn’t as Scary as People Think"
20VC with Harry Stebbings·2025-08-14 05:00
People are nervous about what's on the other side. My take on it was we were a private company. We had a bunch of quirky, slightly misaligned venture capital investors who were definitely in our shorts.Then we flipped to public. Then we got rid of those VCs. Now we had a bunch of quirky, slightly misaligned public investors who are less in our shorts.It's actually better in a lot of ways than being private. And public investors like there's so much written about what happened with Zenesk or Autodesk or thes ...