Sword CEO Calls IPO ‘Boring’ for Now After $4 Billion Valuation

Sword Health’s 41-year-old founder isn’t shy about his ambitions — or his lack of interest in taking the conventional path to the public markets.

“Right now, running a publicly listed company sounds terribly boring,” said Virgílio Bento, who is also chief executive officer of the digital health startup valued at $4 billion in a June funding round. “We want to build a trillion-dollar company that really wants to change health care all over the world.”