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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.
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We don't wanna, We don't wanna say,
We don't wanna jinx anything."
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We walked in and it was a big screen TV showing CNBC.
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And it was amazing to us,
but the theme for the day was Linux.
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Now we have an IPO that's gonna go today.
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And when I mean go, it is going to go.
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The estimates I'm hearing are staggering.
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But watch VA Linux Systems. It goes at 12:40 today.
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The symbol is L-N-U-X.
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A provider of large scale computer
servers and workstations,
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specially designed for the Linux operating system.
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The original range on this IPO was
11 to 13 dollars, then 21 to 23, then 28 to 30.
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Priced at 30, and the estimates I'm hearing
I don't wanna repeat
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because I don't have a confirmation.
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But if they're true, they will blow you're mind
when this stock takes off at 12:40.
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I turned to Linus and I said "Gee, did you ever think,
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you know, you'd walk in here some day and
Linux would be THE theme on CNBC?".