For those of you following the emerging Cyberland Equities Exchange, I’m pleased to announce that the exchange executed its 1,000th flawless equity trade on July 19, 2005! Additionally, the number of outstanding shares in Second Life’s FIRST publicly owned and traded company has skyrocketed to nearly 143,000! These are very exciting milestones to me, especially considering that we only opened the exchange for public trading on July 7, 2005.
Let me just take a moment to say a big public THANK YOU to all of the early adopters of this exciting new project. To date Cyberland has raised well over L$1,000,000 in public sector funding. Your trust and support in this emerging marketplace is paving the way for large, publicly owned companies to one day be able to outperform the singular vested Second Life interests and return a chunk of the economy to the public.
Thank you so much, each and every Cyberland share holder, for being a part of the humble beginnings of this new enterprise. I had expected it to get this large, (and much larger in fact) but not nearly so quickly! I look forward to publishing the first earnings report on August 12. In fact, I think we’ll make an event of it!
-Shaun