Gaurav Dhillon
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Oh, wow.
Yeah, and that's the way to do it.
That's what Tableau did, which shares some finance board members with my old company and so on.
Yeah, if you do well, that's the right way to do it.
Look, because the IPO, you're also trying to build a brand for yourself.
Nobody knows you as a company or as an executive.
So if you do a modest IPO, you've got to price it so there's some wealth for the new buyers.
And as they do well, they get a sense.
You do a couple of good quarters and you have the right momentum.
And then they're very much more confident of buying a bigger chunk.
And at that point, you can price it more efficiently instead of trying to do it all in one go.
So I certainly feel that was good policy.
And for one year, I did nothing.
I had certain bucket list items.
I wanted to learn a language.
So I learned Spanish.
I wanted to travel in certain parts of the world, want to spend some time with my parents before they got too old.
I did that.
And I also wanted to win the bet that many of my friends made with me that I wouldn't last more than six months.
So I basically left the country and moved to Argentina.