Comments on: What If Facebook Never Actually Does an IPO? http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/ Sat, 25 May 2013 08:43:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Zynga’s Big Gamble: Going Public Before Facebook Does: Tech News and Analysis « http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-592615 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:33:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-592615 [...] because waiting for Facebook may be trouble in and of itself. Last week Mathew asked the question “What if Facebook never actually does an IPO?”. In it, he points out that Mark Zuckerberg and his chums are considering a private share issue and [...]

]]> By: KenG http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-591047 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:11:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-591047 So when the VC funds that have invested in FB need to wind down, are they going to distribute shares to their LPs? Will Facebook let them?

People have invested way too much money to have it sit idle and not generating dividends or providing enough liquidity for easy sales. If there is no real public market for their shares, it’s not much more than a virtual mattress.

]]> By: anon http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-590888 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:41:41 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-590888 The hacker who hacked into Zuckerwotshisname’s account said it best – if it’s money you want and you’re all about ‘social’ why not a socially-funded option.??
They got hundreds of millions of people who can make this happen, does money only come from selling people’s privacy to private hands, what happened to just being paid to provide a service???

]]> By: Andrew http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-590863 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:08:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-590863 Can somebody explain how it is not a Ponzi scheme?

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-590647 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:27:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-590647 Good point — right now Mail.ru stock is about the only way someone can play Facebook in public.

]]> By: Mathew Ingram http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-590646 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:25:49 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-590646 It will all happen on the private markets, I suppose.

]]> By: Megatron http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-590287 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:36:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-590287 I love the idea that Facebook could keep offering exit’s to it’s current investors by selling to new investors through a different private placement.

can you say “Ponzi”?

]]> By: GhostWriter http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-590255 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:02:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-590255 2.38% of Facebook stock is public – it’s traded in London as Mail.ru. If DST is the buyer this time around, they can float whatever amount of Facebook, Zynga or Groupon they please.

]]> By: Gubatron http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-590254 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-590254 I’ve thought about this too, you usually go public because you need to get big, but it seems facebook is as big as it can be at this point in time and it doesn’t really need to go public to get any bigger.

However, they will have to go public due to the pressure of all the interested parties involved who went in to cash out at some point.

]]> By: nitin agarwal http://gigaom.com/2011/02/10/what-if-facebook-never-actually-does-an-ipo/#comment-590248 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:50:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=296559#comment-590248 How will price discovery of the shares happen IF there is NO IPO?

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