The public market is the idealized landing spot for VC and in fact is usually the default and desired pathway for all institutionally funded companies
To the extent that startup boards choose or heavily push a specific category of CFOs in order to drive company structure that would lead to an IPO.
Go look at the employee history of a lot of startups and you’ll see they either changed CFOs or got one for the first time, after a massive B but certainly not long after a C round.
The public market is the idealized landing spot for VC and in fact is usually the default and desired pathway for all institutionally funded companies
To the extent that startup boards choose or heavily push a specific category of CFOs in order to drive company structure that would lead to an IPO.
Go look at the employee history of a lot of startups and you’ll see they either changed CFOs or got one for the first time, after a massive B but certainly not long after a C round.