# Prof. JP Eggers on the challenges Etsy faces in going public

1 Faculty News March 13, 2015 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://video.ft.com/4108052655001/Etsys-IPO-dilemma/Companies) -- "I think it's going to be a real challenge, because any time a company goes public and faces the pressures of the market to grow and expand the business, there's a strong pressure to expand the boundaries of what they've been doing and this is a kind of a community that's not an easy one to maintain as it scales larger and larger."

[Watch the video](http://video.ft.com/4108052655001/Etsys-IPO-dilemma/Companies)