What we learned, first and foremost, is that having one foot in the public sector and one foot in the private sector does not work because when you have a foot in the public sector, taxpayers take the risk, and a foot in the private sector, shareholders take the benefit.
Watt discusses the risks of mixed public-private sector involvement.
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