
252 The Story of SunPower
of curiosity and hope. We decided to go public on the larger US
stock exchange, NASDAQ. No one was prepared, however, for the
huge reception we received in November of 2005 when we began
our investor road show in Europe. Each presentation was delivered
to a standing room only crowd. It was clear we could have sold all
the offered shares in the first morning of the first day. And there was
a week of presentations left. There had developed a large pent up
demand for solar stock that seemed to have gone unnoticed by the
investment banks. They noticed it now. The IPO was a huge success,
with the share price 41 percent on the first