Aaron Levie
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I don't think it's a problem.
Uh I mean, probably if I'm like really selfish, like just means more shareholders for us.
Um, like if you just on a continuum, you said, would you like there to be, you know, 10,000 public tech companies or 1,000, like where would you want to be on that continuum?
You know, you can you can just instantly imagine the like liquidity dynamics that would emerge.
Um, so so I'm kind of neutral to like I don't really care that much.
Um I I think one the the interesting innovation.
uh that has emerged is is and this is it's funny because people kind of people kind of don't know exactly the the root cause like some you know maybe people think like 20 years ago we made it so hard to go public.
I'm actually not in that camp.
I don't think we made it too hard to go public.
I think actually it's good to have a of of an a heightened degree of scrutiny and and regulatory pressure on being a public company.
It it it it is is absolutely net positive.
For the average shareholder, that we have all of these systems and governance controls in place.
I think that's only a good thing.
But no matter how we got here, where we're at, is we now have this new innovation, which is late-stage capital that can basically keep you private for as far as we can tell, maybe forever.
Because you can kind of outrun the problem of converting these companies into burn companies to cash.
Depositive companies.
And usually you couldn't outrun that in the private market.
So you ran out of funds.
And so you had to go public to get that capital.
In a world where you can just keep raising privately, you can then twist the business model at some point to generating cash.
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