Google finally files for IPO
I was just going to make this a link on the side over there but then I read through this entire article and thought it was pretty good:
Google files for unusual $2.7 billion IPO | CNET News.com
Mr. Page and Mr. Brin are making some very strong demands with this offering, and they seem determined to do things their way. I guess if they own 30% of the company, they have that right. One passage I thought that was interesting:
Another flourish involves the company’s allegiance to its geeky roots: The amount of the $2.7 billion offering contains an inside joke for math-minded. The exact offering, $2,718,281,828, is the product of “e” and $1 billion, where “e” is the base of the natural logarithm–a logarithm especially useful in calculus–and equals 2.718281828….
This reminds me of what my friend who works there once said about some of the geeky tendancies in the source code:
Boredcast Message from soda!xxxxx (ttyCM) at 13:23 …
in a loop i udnerstand using
