, Columnist
Tech IPO Clog Poised to Burst
Whether by choice or by force, startups are going to have to go public.
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We could soon have a great uncorking of the clogged pipeline of tech IPOs. And clearing the blockage could leave a gigantic mess in Silicon Valley.
Some of the brightest minds in the tech world are predicting big Silicon Valley startups may start to go public by the latter half of next year or 2018. Dropbox -- last valued at $10 billion in a 2014 private stock sale -- could be among them. The San Francisco company has met with advisers to talk about the possibility of an IPO as soon as next year, my Bloomberg News colleagues reported on Monday.