This year will go on the books as one of the best years for tech initial public offerings, but it could prove to be the exception. WeWork’s IPO fiasco stopped the flow, and it is unclear whether an Airbnb IPO could set public listings in motion again. Regardless, IPOs are no longer a must in the tech lexicon. If, in the not so distant past, the timeframe for an exit was extended from a period of five to seven years to a decade, data now suggests that 14 years is a more realistic expectation.
Image: Left to right: Yossi Vinitski, Yifat Oron, Edouard Cukierman, Aya Peterburg. Photo: Sharon Levin, Amit Sha’al, Abigail Oz
