[Moto7451]

And a lot of it is driven by compliance obligations as a public company. If you don’t want SOX work and processes, don’t go public (or work at a startup that’s about to go public). If you don’t want SOC2 work, don’t go after large companies.

[zaphar]

SOX work can be such a shock to a company the first time around. Because many of the systems have not had to meet these obligations before they typically aren't built in a way to control scope and SOX tends to bleed into places where it seems like it really shouldn't.

Those systems and processes are critical to staying out of trouble with the law after going public.

[ghaff]

SOX is one thing. But you also probably get your sales systems and management, demand generation, sales enablement, expense control, etc. etc. better systematized. And yes it changes things. A lot of people who like small companies don’t like larger ones because things have to operate differently.