A couple of quick and interesting things I came across this morning.
Via MarketWatch, looks like Google shares are up around $230/share with prices expected to crest at somewhere in the $275/share range. Must be nice to be employee Adam Wiessman and cash out some stock for $100 million. Not to mention founder Larry Page who sits on about a 1/2 BILLION dollars worth of stock, not including the 1/2 BILLION dollars worth he has already cashed out. I don’t know if it is jealousy as much as it is sheer amazement. How would you like to start at Google and be told the strike price for your options is $224/share? I guess it could be worse.
Via MarketingVox, Forbes CEO Jim Spanfeller predicts that its website, Forbes.com, will zip past the print publication in terms of revenue sometime in the next 2 years. That would be a pretty amazing thing. Very interesting stuff concerning the co-existence of blogs and traditional publishing. More here >>
“I think blogs are an important environmental change on the Web, but I don’t know if it will be as disruptive as some people think for publishers,” Spanfeller said. Forbes.com is “trying to endear ourselves to the blogging community with the creation of a blog on blogs,” he added.
Lastly, via Jimbo, MailOrderChickens.
May 4th, 2005 at 10:43 am
Telling myself that money doesn’t matter is not helping. I want that damn money!!!
May 4th, 2005 at 12:20 pm
It’s easy to sit there and say you’d like to have more money. And I guess that’s what I like about it. It’s easy. Just sitting there, wanting that money. - Jack Handy