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To: neolib who wrote (186697)12/25/2015 3:21:11 PM
From: engineer  Respond to of 213176
 
some of that I could see, but for alot of people, the IPO is a ten year march as it is. For the founders, that is usually their first ability to get money out of a long haul.

alot of early qualcomm people had to wait 6 years to get to IPO and have any cash at all. I know in my case, I drove an old beat up car for a long while until we went pulic and then cashed stock and took care of alot of things I did not do during cash starved days.