Facebook Frolics 2
Jeff Gelles thinks that persons who bought into the Facebook IPO were blinded by the hype. A nugget:
For example, the prospectus warned repeatedly that Facebook was seeing a shift among users to mobile apps – 488 million of its monthly active users connected through mobile devices sometime in March, it said.
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So how was that IPO share price determined? In theory, it was based on factors such as the company’s so-called enterprise value, and complex models estimating the worth today of tomorrow’s profits.
But experts say that a sizable part of the calculation – say, the difference between setting the IPO price at $25 vs. $38 – isn’t about the supply and demand for company’s services, but about the supply and demand for shares of a big-buzz IPO.
At Balloon Juice, mistermix has a slightly different take:
If you are going to follow either of the links, follow the latter. The sentence after the one I quoted pretty much sums it up.
May 24, 2012 at 10:17 am
Right on. Cringely’s still around? Gawd. The few who made out were Zuckerberg, the odious fellow in the Tom Tomorrow cartoon now famously known as a tax evader, the also odious Peter Thiel, and still another odious guy, Sean Parker, a coke head who got wealthy off Napster, another thoroughly failed but famous for ripping off others digital music operation. Quite the menagerie of confidence men.
May 24, 2012 at 1:34 pm
The question remains, is it BPD or NPD.