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GQ on Google's Road to Riches

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-your-envy-on dept.

prostoalex writes "John Heilemann writes the untold story of Google IPO in GQ magazine (out of all tech publications out there). It's a story about Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Google CEO Eric Scmidt and Silicon Valley venture capitalists that guided Google in the startup phase to take it public later. The article answers many questions that readers perhaps had about Google. Why go IPO when your earnings are just fine? How much power do Sergey and Larry have inside the company? What's the reason for so much secrecy? One interesting episode describes an engineer squatting CEO's office seeking solutide from the noise surrounding him in the cube area."

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  1. IPO by eserteric · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Why go IPO when your earnings are just fine?"

    It'll be interesting to see them answer this without saying "because it made us an assload of money."

  2. squatting by Quasar1999 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah... there are days that I wish I could squat my ceo's car... in protest of... umm... not owning one?

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  3. mumble jumble by null+etc. · · Score: 2, Funny
    One interesting episode describes an engineer squatting CEO's office seeking solutide from the noise surrounding him in the cube area.

    Say that fast five times in a row.

  4. Slashdot Poll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everybody who read the WHOLE article... raise your hands...