[alephnerd]

Why go public when until 9-12 months ago you could raise IPO level cash ($100-300mil) in a Series D/E/F/G and with none of the SEC scrutiny. It's better for founders to remain private as long as possible. It's better for employees for companies to go public as soon as possible. For VCs it depends on what stage they are at in capital allocation (companies funded in the earlier stage of a fund will have more leeway cuz VCs don't need to pay back their investors, but companies funded at a later stage will be pushed to exit faster cuz you gotta make the investors whole)

The Collision brothers and the Hindawis (Tanium founders) have both been very vocal about this point.