Private vs public markets for Silicon Valley startups

High prices and stiff competition mean investors must think creatively "LAST month KKR, a private-equity firm, announced that it would buy Envis... (2018)

valuations in the private markets, particularly the late-stage private markets, can sometimes be irrational. Public market valuations, certainly af... (2019)

Technology companies worth more than $1 billion--and many worth $10 billion--have fewer reasons to go public than they did in the past. Here’s what... (2017)

Daniel Rasmussen went inside the machine, and didn’t like what he saw... (2018)

Shares of Agora, a China and U.S.-based “real-time engagement” API company, soared today after it went public. Yesterday Agora priced 17.5 million ... (2020)

To understand why the popular narrative around IPOs is wrong, you have to take apart the IPO process, how stock markets work, and what the “price” ... (2020)

Son Masayoshi has shown that the future of technology lies as much in Asia as in Silicon Valley (2020)

For more than 100 years, companies have existed in a binary world, either private or public. Private companies have been highly restricted in how t... (2021)