Raspberry Pi IPO

26 points by kieto 2 years ago | 9 comments

blitzar 2 years ago |

Great to see charities bringing their charitable goods to the stock market.

mojomark 2 years ago | |

100%. After seeing this comment, I'm shocked to learn that even in the US, apparently non-profits can issue stock (in a small subset of states anyway). What the hell is the point of owning a stock if not for profit? Just issue a donation if you want to contribute moreney to a charity. Seems very disingenuous.

daemin 2 years ago | | |

You own stock so you can tell the organisation what you want it to do, after all you are an owner of the organisation if you own stock.

Same goes for regular companies as well, the stock holders can tell the company what they want done, it doesn't have to be profit (though it pretty much always is), it can be saving the environment, going to explore space, etc.

tankenmate 2 years ago | | |

RPi Holdings is not the same organisation as Raspberry Pi Foundation.

smcleod 2 years ago |

This is a shame, the customer will now be the shareholder rather than the purchaser of the product.

Elfener 2 years ago |

Prepare for raspberry pis to make even less sense for hobbyists/consumers?

codetrotter 2 years ago | |

What hardware do you prefer?

renw0rp 2 years ago |

Slightly tangential, but if anyone is wondering how profitable could be running a charity in the UK: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/chari...

Last section shows salary breakdown for top (60k+) earners.

TLDR: Eben earns £450-500k and most probably his wife is somewhere there at £150k+

blitzar 2 years ago | |

Turns out those are the total remuneration for employees at the charity and all its subsidaries (i.e. charity and commercial arms) - thats how much tech in the UK pays.