The process of going public involves significant administrative effort without immediate tangible improvements to core business operations or vendor relationships.

“I think you do all this work and I I think it's really difficult to to overestimate the amount of garbage that's involved in in going public. the number of meetings where you you look on the the Zoom and there are 130 attendees and the amount of times you review these documents and the commas move a”

Being a public company provides essential credibility and legitimacy that helps in securing relationships with major customers like governments and large enterprises.

“being a public company gives you the kind of force in the world that people go, "Okay, you're here to stay and you have access to capital if you need it and so on, right? It's legitimizing”