The Google IPO

Pre-IPO
Initiated from their dorm rooms at Stanford University while they were the Doctoral students major in computer science, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 with the $1,000,000 funded by the angel investors. In fiscal 2003, Google has generated $961.9 million in revenue and posted $105.6 million in net profit. Head-on competing with another search giant Yahoo.com, with 60 million internet users, Google has become one of the most powerful search engines in the world.

In October 2003, Microsoft was seeking possible partnership or merger with Google. The deal fell through. To make sure they have the absolute voting power and ownership, Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced to raise capital of exactly USD $2,718,281,828 ( a product of "e" and $1 billion, where "e" is the base of the natural logarithm) through the Dutch auction with Initial Public Offering.

Process of IPO

Google filed an S-1 form with the Securities and......

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