Google IPO Swami

Posted by michael on Sunday May 16, 2004 @09:34AM from the GIGO dept.

The Google IPO Swami writes: "I'm running an experiment and Slashdot readers would be good contributors. As you may know, Google recently announced that they will be using a unique dutch auction structure to price shares of their IPO. Instead of having the underwriters determine the opening price, the price will be set by the demand of investors that register to participate. I'm interested in how well the public can estimate this demand and the price of the shares to be offered. I'm giving away free shares in Google to find out. The person that comes closest to estimating the opening and closing price of the stock on the IPO date will win shares in the company."

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Re:Who knows? by in7ane · 2004-05-16 09:55 · Score: 5, Interesting

No, no, no, you got it all wrong. Winning is certain:

Two 0-999 ranges
i.e. 1000*1000 possible combinations Need 1,000,000 submissions to 'win'

Spamgourmet.com allows dynamic forwarding

g000000.2.name@spamgourmet.com
To
g999999.2.name@spamgourmet.com

Here I come!

/wonders if a few minutes to write the script is worth it for a few shares...