Here is Unity in a nutshell. Unity was a great company that developed the most popular engine for creating PC and mobile games Unity went public and got a ton of cash Unity hired a new CEO JR JR blew all of the ' going public money ' on stupid acquisitions that had nothing to do with it's core business. JR tried to make a pricing change that alienated almost all of it's core customers, who threatened to leave the platform. JR got fired New guy comes in and basically closes down all of the parts of the business that JR wasted money acquiring. Unity is basically back to where it was before going public. Still has a great game engine, has some great vertical integrations for developers as far as ad monetization, cloud and AI services. But now with the burden of being a publicly traded company. Some of the acquisitions that JR made are just completely closed down 2 years later... billions of dollars.. poof. If Unity had never gone public they would be exactly where they are now, but with private ownership.
