public company
a company that has more than 50 shareholders and whose shares are offered for public subscription.
- Compare private company.
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How to use public company in a sentence
Having served on public company boards, growth-stage businesses and Series A startups, an observation I have made in boards that are later stage are more about financial analysis and governance.
Best practices for Zoom board meetings at early-stage startups | Walter Thompson | February 12, 2021 | TechCrunchSuch a regulator would be constantly rethinking the role of a public company and public markets and their obligation not just to investors but to other constituencies.
GameStop mania exposes SEC’s failure as regulator | Steven Pearlstein | January 30, 2021 | Washington PostLook no further than some of the largest public companies in the space.
As ad tech surges, challenges remain — and not just from the coronavirus pandemic | Seb Joseph | January 5, 2021 | DigidayUntil now, SPACs were usually a means of taking public companies that “perhaps weren’t ideally suited for a primetime IPO,” like online gambling or marijuana businesses, Buyer says.
Online retailer Wish fell 16% in its trading debut Wednesday, in a more muted start to life as a public company than for DoorDash and Airbnb last week.
Online retailer Wish falls in 2020’s worst debut for big U.S. IPO | Verne Kopytoff | December 17, 2020 | Fortune
They want the access to capital of a public company, but they want to maintain the control of a private company.
Zynga's IPO Gives Founder Mark Pincus a Stock Class All His Own | Gary Rivlin | December 14, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTIt's difficult to be the director of a public company if you're over 70.
And most crucial looking forward, what is the new succession plan for this public company—and will it be better?
AOL, even after its spinoff from Time Warner in 2009, remains a public company.
We have another name to add that most rarefied group of public-company CEOs in America: the $1 Club.
I had met Mr. De Berenger in public company, but was on no terms of intimacy with him.
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, | William Brodie GurneyExeter Hall has been erected by subscription, by a public company established for the purpose.
That is a private subject, Major, upon which I should prefer not to discourse before this very public company.
The Yellow God | H. Rider HaggardThis Pier was opened by a public company, July 13th, 1858, which has since dissolved.
Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood | William Finch-CrispIn England a corporation is a public company or limited liability company.
The American Language | Henry L. Mencken
British Dictionary definitions for public company
a limited company whose shares may be purchased by the public and traded freely on the open market and whose share capital is not less than a statutory minimum; public limited company: Compare private company
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Cultural definitions for public company
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