Google IPO Open for Registration

Jon Shoberg writes "Google IPO is open for bid registration. From the front page: 'A registration statement relating to Google's Class A common stock has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. Google's Class A common stock may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of Google's Class A common stock in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state. No offer to buy shares of Google's Class A common stock can be accepted and no part of the purchase price can be received until the registration statement has become effective, and any such offer may be withdrawn or revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time until the notice of acceptance is sent after the effective date. Of the shares to be sold in Google's initial public offering of Class A common stock, 14,142,135 shares will be issued and sold by Google and 10,494,524 of the shares will be sold by the selling stockholders.'"

Comments

Re:can I have some clarification

[groupthink]

Means... "you're poor, they're rich". duh

Prime Stock

[Aggrazel]

If you add those two numbers together, the number you get is 24,636,659 ... which happens to be prime.

U.S. Person

[rwiedower]

Thanks to google, I finally know what a U.S. Person is!

Who knew a "branch of a foreign entity located in the United States" counted?

I'm so confused!

[goldspider]

What are we to think of Google now that they are becoming a publicly traded for-profit corporate conglomerate? Instead of serving the anti-establishment community, they have become the establishment, serving only rich white guys with stock prices out of reach of the common man! They have become everything that Slashdot hates!

Re:Why No Internationals???

[Anonymous Coward]

>But because I am not a U.S. Person, I am stuck owning a small portion of Nortel stock and a little of Air Canada

Cheer up dude, you almost got enough for a Tim Horton's Iced Cappuccino!

Wimpy

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some Google stock today!

With $3BN..

[rf0]

Google could buy a 10% stake in Yahoo. Now that would be fun to watch

Rus

When the share price falls

[Albanach]

When the share price falls can we get the folk suing RedHat to start a class action suit against Google too? After all, these tech sahres are only supposed to go upwards are they not?

Here is the real reason for the IPO

[tijsvd]

User Friendly found this out

(Teenage girl filter ON)

[Chagatai]

"Hi! Like, we're Google, and we have totally told the SEC that we want to be on the stock market! Ohmygosh! Totally! We're not doing it yet, just like Marsha Mrady, but we will soon! Now, we're not like telling you to buy our stock, but if you really want to, you can totally do it soon! For sure! We're gonna sell, like, 14 million shares, and our totally groovy people who already have, like, 10 million shares, are going to put it all up! This is so cool!

Re:(Teenage girl filter ON)

[Anonymous Coward]

Is anyone else turned on by that?

square root of 2?

[Anonymous Coward]

is there a reason Google chose to offer (2 ^ (1/2)) * 10,000,000 shares? is the square root of two an important number in the stock market?

oh, and it looks like they forgot to round up: (2^(1/2))*10,000,000 = 14,142,135.623... or 14,142,136

Damn...

[jdtanner]

...I just checked my washing label and I'm not a 'U.S. Person' :-(