I have the chance to move from my engineering career (full-stack robotics, software engineering, cloud background) to assist a law firm as a patent agent in my respective fields. Has anyone made this transition who can offer some input on how that transition played out and what they learned?
I have no data to back this up besides trends I've happened to notice personally, but it seems that private companies with an established market and solid plan still aim for an IPO. Why is that? It seems to only abstract away the initial mission of the company to a board of directors who may not share the same goals, and lead the company towards a slow death as investors have their turn at trying to make what they can from it in the short term. Would a company like Google actually be better off now if it hadn't IPO'd and was still following it's mission?
