{"id":164,"date":"2004-04-29T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/29\/googles-ipo\/"},"modified":"2004-04-29T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-29T21:44:00","slug":"googles-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/29\/googles-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has just announced it has <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/business\/3670951.stm\">filed its IPO<\/a>, for $2.7 billion no less and will become a public company.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/google.blogspace.com\/archives\/001216\">letter from the founders<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Vigila et Ora &#8211; Watch and Pray<br \/>\n(quick wink to all the BGS people out there)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/29\/googles-ipo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google&#8217;s IPO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}