Tangentially... Why do we call people who buy stock on the secondary market "investors?" To me, the investors are the ones who gave the money to the INVESTMENT, i.e., Google in the present case. Everyone else who buys the stock from these investors are not investors, but speculators or some other word. The company already has the money, and gets nothing (beyond possibly a vote) from these people.
Companies sell shares in order to raise cash. At some point Google had to sell shares in order to receive liquidity from the public markets. The people who bought those shares are investors in Google. Buying a share from another investor still represents the same equity ownership from which the original share was purchased.
