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Re:Twitter Is Said to Buy Employee Stock With Half of $800 M... by jackowayed on Sunday July 24, 2011 @11:26PM (#2801192)
As I recall, it's not that they force you to go public, it's that they force you to start reporting a lot of information publicly (revenue, etc.) similarly to how public companies have to.
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Re:Twitter Is Said to Buy Employee Stock With Half of $800 M... by idoh on Monday July 25, 2011 @01:55AM (#2801517)
So you get the downside of being public but not the upside.
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