19th August 2004
Google floats on the stock exchange

On the 19th August 2004, Google went public, floating its shares on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Google sold 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share, valuing the company at more than $23 billion.

Related information:

• Centre for Computing History: Google
• Google: From the garage to the Googleplex

Image:

• Digital billboard announcing Google's IPO
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