The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

Throughout our evolution, from privately held start-up to large, publicly listed company, we have managed Google for the long term — enjoying tremendous success as a result, especially since our IPO in 2004. I wanted to quote all that because these were the clear, well-publicized expectations we established for investors in 2004.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. For example, Amazon’s market is, well, everything. Plenty of headroom there!

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 million shares of Google stock. At Google’s IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! But Bezos got in, after adjusting for stock splits, at EIGHT CENTS PER SHARE! Talk about leverage.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Economic moats remain tethered to investing: A bigger moat makes a stock a better bet. An effective moat doesn’t require Amazon’s distribution network or Microsoft’s monopolistic software strategy. The company limits costs through a management and distribution structure that serves multiple stores in a geographic area.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock. MarketWatch. SmartMoney. SmartMoney.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Stock Quotes. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif.,

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). Cheesy stock photos. Always compare data between segments and distributions. Nate Silver become famous for predicting Obama’s wins in the last 2 elections based on his analysis of polling data. So this is the past. This leads me to rule #1. #1.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

I made my first investment in the stock market when I was 12 years old. I waited for the ‘casino-like’ world of startup investing until I was 28 years old, putting $10,000 into a friend’s software distribution company – a tidy sum for me at that age. I killed it, everyone did. There’s also more competition than ever before.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 20, 2022

If, for example, you’re a photographer, then you probably have deep knowledge about film stocks and camera types and the effects they produce. While all these systems made it easier to create and distribute content, society as a whole never said, “Okay, that’s too much content!”

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. The boundaryless era, the time for distributed teams. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams.

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