[quickthrower2]

I wanted to buy Redhat shares because, well it was the boom and it was a tech company and it was Linux man, Linux is cool. (I had no idea how to install it though!). I was scared/unsure of how to buy a US stock from the UK so I didn't end up doing it. If I recall correctly they went 6x shortly after the IPO. Damn!

[pkaye]

I got some IPO shares in Redhat due to some bugs I reported. Made a good amount of money enough to jump start me going back to college the next year. Half way through the first year the tech bubble collapsed. Before long employers were going bankrupt or having massive layoffs. I remember some laid off workers were clamoring to get enrolled into college near the cutoff window.