Private company

WR Hambrecht + Co

Logo: WR Hambrecht + Co Uploaded by Vanished 1850 at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

American investment banker

William R. Hambrecht (born 1935) is an American investment banker and chairman of WR Hambrecht + Co which he founded in 1998. He helped persuade Google to use an Internet-based auction for their initial public offering (IPO) in 2004, instead of a more traditional method using banks and other financial companies to find buyers.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 19, 2026.

Overview

1998Founded1

See how the biggest companies compare on our leaderboards

William R. Hambrecht (born 1935) is an American investment banker and chairman of WR Hambrecht + Co which he founded in 1998. He helped persuade Google to use an Internet-based auction for their initial public offering (IPO) in 2004, instead of a more traditional method using banks and other financial companies to find buyers.2

Products and brands

Listed on Wikidata.1

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

Former owners and parents

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. Sep 1, 2005Acquired Acquired by Monex Hambrecht1
  2. 1998Founded Founded1

Sources

The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.

  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3