public company
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It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.
Once you're head of a public company you are expected to perform; you're like an unpaid greyhound on a racetrack called the stock market. They'd take bets on us, but not add anything at all.
I enjoy not being a public company.