
Rich Barton Talks About His Startup Companies
Masters in Business
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Are You a CEO at a Public Company?
I'm a big fan of being public. I also believe that this quarterly reporting stuff is great discipline. Having auditors in your operation, even me as a CEO, I'm happy to have auditors in there just to kind of be digging through and looking for stuff. Optionality creates value. And when you have optionality to buy companies with stock, to issue stock, and to raise cash, it creates value. Can you imagine Tom Brady in college? Where was he? In Michigan? I think saying, I don't want to go pro. You know, they're writing about me all the time. It's too commercial. They're people on the radio making fun of me
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