Google has just announced it has filed its IPO, for $2.7 billion no less and will become a public company.
A letter from the founders claims big things about how the company will not change for the worse now they are no longer a private company. I hope they turn out to be true.
I see there being a risk this is the beginning of Google turning evil, with the interests of their share holders above those of their users. We really don’t want them to do that. Everyone trusts Google, every geek loves Google and google has even become a verb. Can the founders really become billionaires and still not be evil?
I’ll shut up now before I start rambling about the information they have at their fingertips and what it could do in the wrong hands.
Vigila et Ora – Watch and Pray
(quick wink to all the BGS people out there)