https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/03/startups-are-staying-private-way-too-long-says-salesforce-founder-marc-benioff/

“What public markets do is indeed the great reckoning. But it cleanses [a] company of all of the bad stuff that they have.”

That’s Salesforce founder and chief executive officer Marc Benioff talking about the benefits of public markets.