no you're not missing anything I had a dumb moment when I was writing the submission title, got names mixed up and now I can't edit the title.
In the linked discussion thread, which is of course about Google, someone mentioned they had a similar issue on Youtube and somehow I got the two names mixed up in my head.
They filed for IPO. If this goes through, the stock will likely be listed on some stock exchange, and a stock broker will facilitate your purchase of them.
Drat! it took em: 00:09:23. That bloody accept terms and those checkmarks at the end got me good. Nice game and great way to get people to want to apply. Kudos to the creators.
Patents dont mean crap tho right? Companies that have any idea file hundreds of patents per year just incase it becomes a thing. I wouldnt put too much stock into this.
In addition to this I'll be talking to people in real life. But I wanted to gauge if this problem clicked with anyone. It sounds like that would be a "no" for you.