Saying you want to control your company and you want to be around 10 years and then raising VC funding is either naive or dishonest.

VCs aren’t interested in a lifestyle business throwing them maybe a small dividend and a miniscule number of companies go public. Look at YC, they have invested in thousands of companies and only around 20 have gone public and only 3 have had positive returns since going public

https://medium.com/@Arakunrin/the-post-ipo-performance-of-y-...