This is The Founders' List - audio versions of essays from technology’s most important leaders, selected by the founder community.

Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one. It’s been more than 10 years since Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote a long and personal “owner’s manual” for shareholders detailing their hopes and worries about taking Google public in 2004, and sharing the company’s ethos.

Read the full memo here - https://abc.xyz/investor/founders-letters/2004-ipo-letter/