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... which has absolutely nothing to do with going IPO, since they would cash out/in and get access to stockholders money at the exact day of their IPO, not "next year or two".

If you do not need to raise money there are limited reasons to go public, however you have much stricter reporting requirements, and general things you cannot do anymore since you are publicly traded, not to mention hostile takeovers, etc. Dell's story is a great example why you want to go public / go back private.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/connieguglielmo/2013/10/30/you-...



> which has absolutely nothing to do with going IPO

Sure it does. You can't do an IPO in a day. A company starting the process now risks having the recession start before the IPO goes live.




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