How much did they sell Google for?

Answer 1

Google hasn't entirely been sold. Its co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page were the major shareholders originally, and other top executives of the company also became shareholders. Following the initial public offering of shares in 2004, two other public offerings have been made. However, by the end of those public offerings of shares, Brin and Page still retained $ 24 billion worth of shares. History of public share offers: # Initial public offering, August 2004: 19.6 million shares, at $85 each, total $1.7 billion # September 2005: 14.2 million shares(See note 1), priced at $295 each, total $4.18 billion. # March 2006: 5.3 million shares, priced at $389.75, total $2.065 billion. These three public share offerings totalled almost $8 billion.

(Note 1. Actually there were 14,159,265 shares offered, the number being the same as the first eight digits of the decimal the value of Pi after the decimal point.)

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