Public Founder and CEO Jannick Malling Comments on Importance of Public.com Domain Name

Public is a fractional investing platform that has raised more than $300 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. Public can easily be found on its brand matching Public.com domain name. Public.com is easy for customers and prospects to remember, especially if they just learned about the company through one of its many television commercials like this:

Public wasn’t always easy to find, though. When it launched, customers had to navigate to the off-brand HelloPublic.com domain name. It was a less expensive alternative to Public.com, but it was the domain name where the company got its start.

Around 2019, the company made an important strategic decision. It acquired the high value Public.com domain name in a private transaction. The acquisition price was never shared publicly. Since then, the company has continued to grow.

We could speculate about why Public decided to make this huge acquisition, but we don’t need to do that. Public Co-Founder and Co-CEO Jannick Malling laid out the rationale for this acquisition on a Twitter post:

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