On March 13, 1986, Microsoft shook up the financial world, and to some degree, we are still feeling the reverberations from that 40 years later. That was the day of Microsoft’s very successful IPO. The hunt for the next Microsoft began immediately, leading directly to the dotcom bubble of the turn of the century.How big was Microsoft’s IPO?Microsoft stood so tall after its 1986 IPO that the search for a repeat was a major contributor to a recession.Microsoft’s IPO initially valued company at $21...