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So leading up to the IPO, uh...
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we had arrived actually in San Diego
on Tuesday night
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We spent Wednesday morning meeting investors
in San Diego.
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We flew up to San Francisco
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spent Wednesday afternoon meeting
investment firms in San Francisco
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VA Linux Selected
December 9, 1999, as the day
for its stock to begin trading.
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then on the Thursday morning of the IPO is
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when our stock would be traded publically.
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So it was nice we had ended
the tour in San Francisco
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because we could go to the credit suite's
trading desk the next morning
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to watch the public offering.
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And in San Francisco being close
enough to the company, and to our families,
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we could invite people up to
actually join us in the first trade.
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So I invited my wife and we invited Linus and Tove,
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and a number of other friends and people
who worked in the company in to join us.
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Whenever we invite Linus and Tove,
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they have uh, two young children,
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and I have a daughter, Andrea.
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And we always bring the kids along
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so we went in to the credit suite's trading floor
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with all these traders and there are these 3 year old kids
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running around and chasing each other
around the show floor,
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around the trading floor.
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So Linus and I walked in and
we walked up in to the trading floor
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and everyone was very excited.
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And we kept asking them, well
"Hows it going? Are things going ok?".
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And they said, "Oh, it's.. uh, we're really excited,
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I think things are going well.