Top 10 Internet IPOs of the Decade
2. Google: Google went public in 2004, with a deal worth $1.6 billion. As of March 1, 2012, the firm is valued at 23 billion and saw a rise of 18 percent in value on the first day it went public. According to the infographic, the world’s largest search engine had more than 2,000 employees the year it went public. Today, it has around more than 10 times as many people working for it, and has registered growth of 632.2 percent. Being an American company, it is headquartered in California, but has offices all over the world.
