[RedDevil]

I work for a company that develops software for governmental organizations. We are mostly privately owned; just one aquired part of the company used to have shares, and we are looking into ways to end it, but as for now it is cheaper to let it be.

We aim at long term stability and have lost business to our competitors in bull markets, to see them crash and burn in adverse times, picking up the pieces and servicing their software and its clients, who would have a very big problem otherwise.
This has made us market leader in a large number of applications.

I fully understand Tesla’s urge to leave the stock exchange. It may be essential, even, if they want steady and continuous growth. You can get big as a public company, but you can get kicked around a fair deal too.