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Following the closing of the $25 million financing round, Sequoia encouraged Brin and Page to hire a CEO. Brin and Page ultimately acquiesced and hired Eric Schmidt as Google's first CEO in August 2001. [84]

In October 2003, while discussing a possible initial public offering of shares (IPO), Microsoft appr oached the company about a possible partnership or merger . [85] The deal never materialized. In January 2004,

Google announced the hiring of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group to arrange an IPO. The IPO was projected to raise as much as $4 billion. Google's initial public offering took place on August 19, 2004. [86] A

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total of 19,605,052 shares w ere offered at a price of $85 per share. [87] Of that, 14,142,135 (another mathematical reference as √ 2 ≈ 1.4142135) were floated by Google and 5,462,917 by

selling stockholders. The sale raised US$1.67 billion, and gave Google a market capitalization of more than $23 billion. [88] Many of Google's employees became instant paper millionaires. Yahoo!, a

competitor of Google, also benefited from the IPO because it owned 2.7 million shares of Google. [89] Following the company's IPO in 2004, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt requested

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that their base salary be cut to $1 . Subsequent offers by the company to increase their salaries were turned down, primarily because their main compensation continues to come from owning stock in

Google. Before 2004, Schmidt made $250,000 per year, and Page and Brin each received an annual salary of $150,000. [90] There were concerns that Google's IPO would lead to changes in company

culture. Reasons ranged from shareholder pressure for employee benefit reductions to the fact that many company executives would become instant paper millionaires. [91] As a reply to this concern, co-founders Brin and

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Page promised in a report to potential investors that the IPO would not change the company's culture. [92] The company was listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol GOOG . When

Alphabet was created as Google's parent company, it retained Google's stock price history and ticker symbol.

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