We recently unveiled the Going Public Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — a new destination for founders navigating the complexities of company building, from early traction to IPO and beyond. Today, we’re excited to announce new agenda additions that bring even more insight and firepower to the stage, shown only at the 20th anniversary celebration of TechCrunch. Joining the speaker lineup are Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom Communications Inc., and Santi Subotovsky, general partner at Emergence. These ...

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 ...

Do you think Stripe should go public. I think Stripe can do whatever it wants and obviously they can raise infinite amounts of capital from the private markets to run their business. I do think it's a big problem that a retail investor can't get access to Stripe shares which has been a category defining company.You could tokenize that. I've shared this viewpoint with uh Patrick and John and you know they they give me some variant of uh oh well we're just a small Irish family company. Um, please don't tokeni ...