Matthew Prince
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1,742 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Mar 2019
last heard 10 Jun
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Like you have a lot of control over how much the pop is going to be.
And we sat with bankers and we were like, listen, we want it to go up about 20%.
Yeah.
And if we had priced it at like 13, it would have gone up more.
yeah but but the problem again like you you wanna you wanna play for the long term here and so again my fight with bill yeah is you know he says you know that you should you should do um uh you know some sort of system where you're where you actually you know price it at whatever the top price is the problem with that is if you look at all the companies uh that that have done that so the airbnbs and
That's great for your private market investors.
That's great for the VCs.
That's great for any of the founders that are taking money off the table.
But you've got to keep running the company.
The IPO isn't the end.
It might be the end for the VCs, but it's not the end for the operators of the company.
And you want to be able to build that relationship and build that over time.
we worked incredibly hard to be very sort of choosy on who we gave allocations to.
And we went through every single name on the allocation list.
And I think as a result of doing that, if you look at who our top 10 shareholders are, it's been incredibly stable over time.
And they're folks who give us, again, great advice and have been really just really, really great to work with.
I'm sure that there are times you don't have it, but I was surprised at how the banks have a really good sense of, if you price it here, here's what's going to happen.
And in our case, it was to the penny.
Yeah, I mean, I think a couple of different things.
So one, I think we're trying to make bets on people who can really function in really dynamic environments.
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