Coming Soon: the Lonergan Silicon Valley 150 - 2021 Rankings
The Pandemic Era Remakes the Silicon Valley 150
Mark Lonergan, April 7th, 2021
2020 saw big corporate changes in the Silicon Valley.
Lonergan Partners is pleased to bring you the timeliest ever Lonergan SV 150 – our annual ranking of the top public tech companies headquartered within fifty miles of the old HP Garage - to paint you a picture of 2020 tech sector results.
The final rankings will be
What CEOs Need From Their Boards
A CEO Roundtable at the Silicon Valley Directors Exchange
Mark Lonergan, January 27th, 2021
On January 21, I moderated a roundtable of distinguished current and former public company CEOs focusing on the relationship between the public company CEO and his/her Board of Directors. Our speakers were Penny Herscher, Joe Burton, Michael Hurlston, and Moshe Gavrielov. This webinar was hosted by the Silicon Valley
The Talent Flight to Quality
How the Pandemic is Changing the Way Talent Moves
Mark Lonergan, December 2nd, 2020
The last ten months have been unprecedented in the Silicon Valley. When COVID hit our region back in February, there was a simultaneous selloff in public markets – and an unprecedented slowdown in the rate of early-stage venture investing. Very quietly, hundreds of venture-backed companies in our region shut their doors, including: Zume,
The biggest news from Silicon Valley
HPE moving to Houston in 2022
Mark Lonergan, December 2nd, 2020
Yesterday the CEO of LSV150 #8 ranked Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced the relocation of this region’s founding company from San Jose to Houston, Texas by 2022. That's much bigger news than Saleforce's acquisition of Slack, but as of the publication of this blog, the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Chronicle have
The Way To Go IPO
Upsurge in Dual Class Stock Ownership in the LSV150
Mark Lonergan, September 19th, 2020
With the September 2020 IPO of San Mateo based Snowflake, the Bay Area boasts yet another example of dual class stock ownership (DCSO), an increasingly popular stock strategy among Silicon Valley tech IPOS.
A DCSO public company has two types of shares: one held