1:34:05
and Linus said in his joking way said "Oh Absolutely!".
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So we walk in and they show us
the buy and sell orders coming in..
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and it's incredible.
1:34:16
We're seeing numbers like
320 dollars, 340 dollars a share.
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And I'm just in complete shock.
1:34:23
You know, this is over 10 times
where we priced the offering. It was incredible.
1:34:30
And I remember Linus just kind of,
sort of patting me on the back and saying,
1:34:35
you know "Relax..." and it was
pretty exciting to see that.
1:34:39
We were, it was just amazing. We were stunned.
1:34:43
We were lucky that we were able to
get back to the offices,
1:34:47
we'd been in San Francisco
so we could come back to VA's offices
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to, to see everyone in the office for the IPO.
1:34:55
When we got back, we had uh,
everyone was obviously very excited.
1:35:01
The IPO had done just tremendously well.
1:35:04
We had a little party that we put together.
1:35:09
It was interesting, while we were celebrating
1:35:11
there were plenty of people that were still trying to work.
1:35:14
I recall cries of "Be quiet!",
"We're on the phone!", "We're Working!",
1:35:18
Uh, as we uh, as we went in to the offices.
1:35:23
One of the things I did was
I gave the road show presentation
1:35:27
for the employees back at the office,
1:35:29
so they could have an idea of
what we'd been telling investors,
1:35:33
and understand exactly what we'd uh,
put together for them.
1:35:37
But again the story of the day is VA Linux,
now up 766% to 235 dollars to 265.
1:35:48
Sue, the best performing IPO ever.
1:35:51
Here it goes, Sycamore Networks was uh,
priced at 38 dollars, surged to $270.
1:35:58
This has just beat it. And by the way..