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Five years after IPO, Google is still a renegade

Posted Aug 20th 2009 12:00PM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Competitive Strategy, Google (GOOG)

Yesterday, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) had its fifth birthday as a public company. Google, which has done nothing short of astounding in the last half-decade in terms of turning much of the advertising world upside-down, has defied many of the critics who probably never believed it would become as strong as it has in such a short time. That's because that kind of thinking was linear, and Google operated on an exponential scale using data and formulas to make things works quickly and efficiently, not haphazard management belief and inefficient decision making.

And so here we are. After the IPO that Google made accessible to anyone in a dutch auction back in August of 2004, the company's shares have made it all the way to $700 and above from their initial IPO price of $85, and closed yesterday at just over $443 per share after dipping almost down to $250 last December. Google has risen during the most intense part of a recession that's just now being acknowledged as being close to over.

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Google about to celebrate second public birthday

Posted Aug 17th 2006 11:45AM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Deals, Products and Services, Insiders, Consumer Experience, Internet, Competitive Strategy, Google (GOOG), Marketing and Advertising

With Google about to turn two this weekend, insofar as being a public company, just what has the search giant done for the marketplace in the last two years? If founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have anything to say, it's what elementary grade Google the company has achieved so far in just under two years. "If Google were a person, the company would have been close to finishing the first grade at the time of the IPO" -- this was a quote both co-founders wrote to shareholders in 2004 as the GOOG was listed as a public company and started trading.

So, what grade has Google completed two years later in 2006? Has Google graduated the sixth grade or is it just starting high school? With the search market lead the company has built up -- based on a superior product, unobtrusive advertising and very relevant results -- Google shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, it may graduate high school early and head to college studies soon.

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