Media goes crazy over closely-held Google
The best way to read all the hoopla surrounding the Google IPO announcement is by using Google itself. More exactly Google News.
Google is setting itself up to remain very closely held both in terms of shareholders and board members. According to this Forbes.com story:
Google's board now includes Arthur Levinson, 54, chairman and chief executive of Genentech Inc. (nyse: DNA - news - people); Paul Otellini, 53, Intel Corp. (nasdaq: INTC - news - people) president and COO; and Stanford University President John Hennessy, 50.
...As for Google's executives, Schmidt's title in the filing is chairman of the executive committee, chief executive and director. Brin and Page are both directors and assistant secretaries. Brin is also president of technology and Page is president of products.
...Other directors are John Doerr, 52, and Michael Mortiz, 49, -- two of Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalist, and K. Ram Shriram, 47, an early Netscape employee.
Shriram also served as the former VP of Business Development at Amazon when he sold his company Junglee to Amazon, and active Valley angel investor in companies such as Plaxo and Friendster who recently ousted their founder/enterpreneur CEOs. He gets around. You can read his bio here.