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Square could take hit on IPO with Jack Dorsey leading Twitter

October 2, 2015 admin annual, initial-public, media, public-offering, san, silicon-valley, situation, somerville, source-familiar, success-or-lack, the-end-of-year

By Heather Somerville SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The much anticipated initial public offering from Silicon Valley payments company Square could take a price hit if its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, takes a second and possibly more demanding job: running Twitter. “Management and management focus are the single most determining factor of the success or lack thereof of a company pursuing an IPO,” said Lise Buyer, an IPO consultant with Class V Group in Silicon Valley who also helped guide Google Inc's IPO