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Blue Apron founder and CEO Matt Salzberg saw his company going public from its inception, he said in an interview with CNBC.

But what if going public stifles the innovative spirit that made the startup such a success in the first place?

Going public would mean greater scrutiny and expectations for consistent growth, a combination that would work against Uber while it faces regulatory uncertainty and fierce competition in across the globe, he says.

While observers have speculated that the Cara privatization was merely a preamble to its going public again — perhaps as a trust, but certainly at a premium to the price the Phelans paid — privacy is something that Tsampalieros says gives him more room to manoeuvre than in the past.

Going public is incredible, but it's just a moment in the life cycle of your business.

Matt Salzberg, founder and CEO of Blue Apron, saw his company going public from its inception, he told CNBC on Thursday.

Tesla's long - anticipated announcement is also the latest in a string of clean - tech start - ups going public.

The data center software company's sudden stock spike follows several media reports on Thursday that said Dell was considering going public, just five years after the technology giant went private in a deal worth nearly $ 25 billion.

When a cash crunch left Classics scuffling to meet payroll a few years ago, Berger started to fantasize about going public.

He printed his prelude to going public on 100 % recycled paper.

Take the case of medical records technology firm Athenahealth, which took the radical step of sharing its complete financial history with all of its roughly 600 employees before going public in 2007.

Webvan flamed out in less than three years after burning through $ 800 million, going public, and filing for bankruptcy.

More specifically, Gurley is critical of a growing number of tech companies that have decided to remain private instead of going public or being acquired.

Based (along with Justin Trudeau) in Canada's capital of Ottawa, Shopify has returned more than 500 percent to investors since going public on the New York Stock Exchange in May 2015.

Dyson also has little interest in seeing his company become as big as Apple, which is why he has resisted going public.

Prior to going public, GrubHub had raised about $ 84 million from venture and private equity firms including Warburg Pincus Private Equity, GS Capital Partners, and Benchmark Capital Partners.

One sector that lagged behind was startups, as people become increasingly worried about valuations and stability at a number of firms as they either delay going public or struggle in the public market, such as Snap Inc. and Blue Apron Holdings Inc..

According to GrubHub's S - 1 filing — the form a company must submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission prior to going public — profits have declined over the past three years as the company has expanded.

GoPro, which trades under the ticker GPRO on the NASDAQ exchange, is somewhat different from many other tech companies going public this year in a white - hot market for IPOs.

Although many of the companies going public lack profits — Twitter and Box, as just two recent examples, reported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of losses in their Securities and Exchange Commission filings — they are a far cry from many of the hollow IPOs of the 1990s, experts say.

This list recognizes those entrepreneurs who have maintained an innovative, forward - looking leadership during and sometimes despite the distractions of going public.

Its share price has soared about 150 percent since going public in November with an offering price of $ 26.

«This type of financing can be a bridge to going public or an alternative to an IPO,» explains Thomas Shattan, managing director of Prudential Securities» private - equity - financing group, in New York City.

«Most vendors were not forthcoming when we contacted them in private, so going public was the only option left available to us.»

One concern is that companies will choose to raise big rounds from SoftBank rather than going public or selling to a larger rival.

Rumors swirled throughout 2016 that Pinterest was on the brink of going public, but its most recent influx of funding means an IPO could be delayed even further.

It was last valued at $ 2.3 billion following an investment round led by Iconiq Capital, and has since been encircled by rumors of going public.

Going public or accepting an acquisition deal isn't in the works.

The past couple of years has seen a spate of Chinese companies going public through reverse takeovers — a somewhat murky process in which a private firm purchases a shell company that already trades on a foreign exchange.

Meanwhile, tech acquisitions continue to skyrocket as companies avoid going public.

Founders who were once in a race to get to a liquidity event such as a buyout or IPO now have viable options for continuing to add value beyond a Series B or C. Private investors also offer a more efficient transaction than going public and are more likely to offer lucrative valuations based on potential, vs. actual, performance.

Although Snap is going public at a much earlier stage in its development than Twitter or Facebook, the five - year - old company is valuing itself at nearly 60 times revenue, more than double the 27 times revenue mark Facebook fetched in its IPO.

Second, acquisitions are often better deals than going public.

Although some investors are skeptical, a company's lack of profitability upon IPO isn't so unusual among online firms going public this year; user - review competitor Yelp annouced this week it would file for an IPO of its own, and investors still are hot on Groupon stock that generated a $ 700 million IPO.

We envy them all and want to emulate them but know that they are just people dealing with struggles of a different magnitude from the pressures of going public, the pressures of pricing competition, the pressures of over-reaching of journalists and regulators and the pressures of activist public shareholders with short - term expectations.

«One thing we're not afraid of is going public,» Neumann said.

Many of the CEOs and leadership teams I have worked with over the years have fallen into the same trap: they get overly focused on selling their company to a strategic or financial acquirer or worse, going public.

The disclosure confirms media reports last week that said Dell was considering going public after operating for roughly five years as a private company.

The company disclosed last month that it had filed confidential IPO papers to start the process of going public.

First, Worth noted Tesla's massive run - up from double to triple digits in its first years after going public.

«You don't want to block them from going public at $ 8 billion if that's the right thing to do.»

Then, as more unicorns consider going public in the next year, investors and markets could change their tune regarding their embrace of these companies.

Even so, the board did invite Morgan Stanley to meet with them and present options for going public.

In early stage deals investors used to commonly ask for a provision preventing the company from going public for less than a certain price.

In the first tech boom, the Snapchats of the world were going public at the first opportunity.

The FBI had images of the two suspects, but it was hesitant about going public with them, for fear of tipping off the suspects and letting them get away.

Xiaomi Corp. (xiaomi) became the first major company to use Hong Kong's new rules for going public, filing for what's expected be the world's biggest debut since 2014.

Dick Costolo, Twitter's chief executive, has been relatively coy about the prospect of his company going public.

Now, with Spotify going public — Kutcher was also an early investor in the streaming music platform — he is excited, but with reservations.

By not going public, you face a smaller set of investors who may have a more consistent set of expectations.