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Re:Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Ben... by traek on Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:59PM (#21154658)
> I personally don't think the public market cares much about things like privacy and governance. If it were, Facebook would have neither investors nor users. Same goes for so many others.

This is a silly take. Data privacy is a completely separate issue from corporate governance, and by most analysts who cover it Facebook is considered a particularly well-governed company.

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Re:Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Ben... by jwm4 on Friday October 04, 2019 @12:38AM (#21154808)
A company whose founder/CEO is the only person who can remove him(self) is well governed?
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Re:Startups ‘are staying private way too long’ says Marc Ben... by vmurthy on Friday October 04, 2019 @02:13AM (#21155245)
The way analysts are probably looking at it: Governance in the letter of laws/regulations : We'll give it a B- , invest and make $$

They are probably smart/cynical enough to know that governance in the spirit of laws/regulations is an F

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