Matt Levine, Columnist

Something Is Lost When Companies Stay Private

Interesting businesses that need cash are increasingly private, while those that are public are increasingly boring.

April 4, 2018 at 6:00 AM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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This post originally appeared in Money Stuff.

Private markets are the new public markets. That's a thing that I say a lot, but here is a front-page Wall Street Journal article about it: