Raspberry Pi officially launched on June 11, 2024!
Raspberry Pi has gone public on the London Stock Exchange, with the stock ticker symbol : Raspberry Pi Holdings plc.This is a watershed moment for Raspberry Pi, marking the start of a new phase of development: Going public will enable Raspberry Pi to manufacture more of the products we love even faster. The funds raised by the Raspberry Pi
Foundation in the initial public offering will support its ambitious plans to make a global impact in its second decade; for more information on what the IPO means for the Foundation, please click here to read Philip's blog post.
blog：https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/what-would-an-ipo-mean-for-the-raspberry-pi-foundation/
A Brief History of Raspberry Pi
Nearly 16 years ago, in the fall of 2008, a group of us set out on this journey. We collectively recognized a serious problem in how young people interacted with technology; we shared a conviction that we should do something about it; and we began to collectively think about what we should do.
Eben and Philip had lengthy discussions about the company and Foundation's partnership model and the significance of the IPO for both organizations in democratizing computing.
Over the years, whether as a company, a foundation, or a broader movement, we have achieved astounding results. We have designed circuit boards, written software, fabricated chips, published magazines, filed patents, trained teachers, and started after-school clubs - our products have even been sent into space, the deep ocean, and the far reaches of the globe.
We have sold over 60 million low-cost, high-performance, general-purpose Raspberry Pi computers, with users ranging from the core enthusiasts and educators of the Raspberry Pi movement to the industrial and embedded customers who now account for over two-thirds of our sales.
Thanks to the availability and prominence of these computers, as well as the Foundation's curriculum reform and teacher training initiatives, we have seen a resurgence of young people's interest in computing. In 16 years, computer science has gone from being the easiest subject to get into at the University of Cambridge to being the most difficult - a change reflected both within and beyond the UK higher education landscape. The engineers working for us today had their first computing experiences on the Raspberry Pi platform.
Just like a major product launch, our IPO is the result of a whole-company effort!