Google Chooses An Underwriter For Upcoming IPO

PenguinSix writes "Bloomberg and a bunch of others are reporting that Google has hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to arrange its initial public offering. This follows literally years of rumors and stories about a Google IPO. About a third of Mountain View, California-based Google may be sold in the IPO, giving the company a market value of about $12 billion, the bankers said." Google has become so invaluable to many people (like me) that they could probably raise just as much money with a blackmail scheme.

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Blackmail.. maybe worse...

[grub]

..they could probably raise just as much money with a blackmail scheme.

I was thinking along the lines of:

Dearest Sir or Madam,
Our names are Sergey Brin and Larry Page. We created
Google. This letter may come as a suprise to you
being as we have never met. A mutual friend, however,
suggested we contact you. There is an impending IPO
which will make our firm worth 12 BILLION U.S. DOLLARS
($12,000,000,000). To release this money, we ask that
you join us in a business partnership....

This is so 5 years ago

[ObviousGuy]

I'd buy that for a dollar!

Now all we have to do...

[lasmith05]

Is figure out a way us regular mortals to get in on the IPO. :D

I think I'll buy some

[arnoroefs2000]

"On any given day there would be a line of 200 investment bankers that would kill their mothers to get the Google deal,"
said Reed Taussig, chief executive officer at Callidus Software Inc., a San Jose, California based company that plans to sell shares in an IPO.

I think I will be SELLING my mom to buy some stock :)

Re:I think I'll buy some

[psychogentoo]

Is she cute?

Re:I think I'll buy some

[I Be Hatin']

I think I will be SELLING my mom to buy some stock :)

I've had your mom... you better hope they price the IPO under $10...