Google’s 2004 IPO was unusual: it used a Dutch auction to let ordinary investors bid directly, deliberately bypassing Wall Street’s usual practice of allocating shares to insiders.

26 of the legendary investors we track hold GOOGL in their latest 13F filings — more than any other stock in our whale watchlist.

Google’s Sundar Pichai grew up in a two-room home in Chennai, India, with no television or car, sleeping in the living room with his younger brother. He now runs one of the most valuable companies on earth.

Amazon went public in 1997 at $18 a share, raising about $54 million. The company that Wall Street doubted for years is now worth well over a trillion dollars.