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Out of curiosity, I just looked up how Google's IPO faired: it closed day one as a public company valued at $27 billion. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/opin
by stevenj 14y ago
Out of curiosity, I just looked up how Google's IPO faired: it closed day one as a public company valued at $27 billion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/opinion/google-goes-public.html http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/opinion/google-goes-public...
- catshirt 14y agoa "bubbly" 27 billion, no less. wonder what that means, in retrospect.
- gojomo 14y agoIt means don't trust fuddy-duddy newspaper editorial boards about tech firm valuations.
- nikcub 14y agoit means google IPO'd with a lot less revenue. most of the story back then was about it still being a bubble and Google being crap as well: http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/the-google-ipo-skeptics http://nikcub.appspot.com/posts/the-google-ipo-skeptics