Raspberry Pi officially becomes Raspberry Pi Holdings plc

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Raspberry Pi officially goes public as Raspberry Pi Holdings plc. This is a watershed moment for Raspberry Pi and the beginning of a new phase of development: entering the public markets will enable Raspberry Pi to build more of the products we love, faster. The funds raised by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the IPO will support its ambitions to have global impact in its second decade; for more information on what the IPO means for the Foundation, check out Philip’s blog post here.

A brief history of the Raspberry Pi

Nearly 16 years ago, in the fall of 2008, a few of us embarked on this journey together. Together, we realized that something was seriously wrong with how young people interacted with technology; together, we believed that we should do something about it; and together, we began to think about what we should do.

Eben and Philip had a long conversation about how the company and the foundation work together and what the IPO means for both organizations in their efforts to democratize computing.

Over the years, we have accomplished amazing things as a company, a foundation, and a broader movement. We have designed printed circuit boards, written software, built chips, published magazines, filed patents, trained teachers, started after-school clubs, and sent our products into space, to the bottom of the ocean, and to the ends of the earth.

We have sold more than 60 million low-cost, high-performance, general-purpose Raspberry Pi computers to the core enthusiasts and educators of the Raspberry Pi movement, as well as industrial and embedded customers who now account for more than two-thirds of our sales.

Thanks to the availability and visibility of these computers, and the curriculum changes and teacher training programmes the Foundation has championed, we are seeing a resurgence of interest in computing among young people. In sixteen years, computer science has gone from being the easiest subject to enter at Cambridge to the hardest, and this change is reflected in UK higher education and beyond. The engineers working for us today had their first computing experience on the Raspberry Pi platform.

Just like any major product launch, our IPO was a company-wide effort!