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Subject: Who owns Google
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: clicker5-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 09 Jan 2003 21:23 PST
Expires: 08 Feb 2003 21:23 PST
Question ID: 141058
Who owns Google?
Is Google a publicly traded stock?
If a publicly traded stock, what is the name and symbol?
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Subject: Re: Who owns Google
Answered By: seizer-ga on 10 Jan 2003 10:18 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hi there clicker5!

Google is a privately held company, and as such has no publicly traded
stock (and obviously, no symbol). While there have been some rumours
recently regarding a possible IPO (see the last paragraph of this
page: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0106/037_print.html) there is
no real indication that it intends to go public at this time.

As to ownership, the best information comes, of course, from the
horse's mouth:

"Google is a privately held company with primary financial backing
from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital, which
together led an equity round of $25 million in June 1999. Google also
has benefited from several other high-profile investors, including
Stanford University, Andy Bechtolsheim (co-founder of Sun Microsystems
and current vice president of engineering of the Gigabit Switching
Group at Cisco Systems), and Ram Shriram, an entrepreneur who
previously held senior executive positions at Netscape, Junglee and
Amazon.com."

(From: ://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html)

I hope this helps - if anything's unclear, please don't hesitate to
request clarification before rating this answer.

All the best,

--seizer-ga

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clicker5-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
Hello seizer:
Thank you for the excellent research.
clicker5

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