1:35:01
The IPO had done just tremendously well.
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We had a little party that we put together.
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It was interesting, while we were celebrating
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there were plenty of people that were still trying to work.
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I recall cries of "Be quiet!",
"We're on the phone!", "We're Working!",
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Uh, as we uh, as we went in to the offices.
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One of the things I did was
I gave the road show presentation
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for the employees back at the office,
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so they could have an idea of
what we'd been telling investors,
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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.
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Sue, the best performing IPO ever.
1:35:51
Here it goes, Sycamore Networks was uh,
priced at 38 dollars, surged to $270.
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This has just beat it. And by the way..
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[ How do you feel about potentially billions
of dollars of wealth being created
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from your creation,
that you're not directly cashing out? ]
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So, if I hadn't made Linux available, I mean,
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I wouldn't have gotten any money that way either.
1:36:19
So I mean, It's a win-win situation.
1:36:23
Uh, just the fact that there are
a lot of commercial companies
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means that there are a lot of Linux people
who used to work on Linux kind of on the side.
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And now they get paid for
doing what they wanted to do.
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And that helps me in the sense that
I wanted them to work on Linux anyway.