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With five companies and $100 million in sales, Ledecky tried to secure financial backers to take the company public with a so-called “poof” Initial Public Offering, or IPO. But again, he faced rejection: the first 40 firms said no. When the 41st firm, Mabon Securities, finally agreed to back the company, Ledecky went to Fidelity Investments for financing...
TIME: Is Google's initial public offering [IPO] a one-of-a-kind event or a sign of things to come...
WOODWARD: It is just wonderful Google has chosen to do its IPO with a public auction of its shares. An auction is the clearest and fairest and most efficient way to set the price for it. And the fact that it has chosen to use the Internet as a part of its IPO will open it up to millions of people who otherwise wouldn't be able to participate...
HEESEN: We think there may be a psychological boost by the Google IPO, but by and large we have seen a pretty conservative market thus...
...highlight Kingdom's stakes in a dozen megafirms, such as Citigroup, PepsiCo, News Corp. and Four Seasons Hotels, and include the tag line "Reaching out through global investments." To some, it sounded as if the U.S.-educated prince was trying to use commercials to prepare the way for an IPO--and perhaps ease terrorism tensions between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. (It wasn't too long ago that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani rejected Alwaleed's $10 million donation to the families of 9/11 victims.) But Alwaleed told TIME the campaign is simply part of a strategy...