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Facebook Files for $5 Billion IPO

Mark Zuckerberg just earned major points...
In Facebook IPO, Zuckerberg wants to teach Wall Street "The Hacker Way"

Facebook has filed for an IPO. We're all going public.Yippeeeeeeee!

And now it's official...
TechCrunch | Facebook Files For $5 Billion IPO

Facebook will be changeing the layout of your facepage within the next five days, so please do notice the changes to the facepage. Do not be surprised about them at all.
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Facebook filed for its initial public offering Wednesday. It will be listed under the ticker FB. The company is expected to begin trading shares in the second quarter of this year. The company is trying to raise $5 billion, far less than analysts had predicted in the weeks leading to the filing.

Facebook’s 2011 revenue was listed $3.7 billion, as compared to $1.9 billion in 2010.


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Facebook files for IPO

Facebook’s Rise From Start-
Up to Establishment | Daniel
Gross
Facebook's prospectus, released
today, offers readers a
voyeuristic look at the
company's operations, its
profits and the riches it will
shower on fortunate investors
and insiders. Reading between
the lines of the prospectus also
reveals a case study of how, in
an age of income inequality
and embedded privilege, an
outsider can very quickly
become part of the
establishment. It shows how a
good idea can attract not just
capital and customers, but
people and other institutions.
Facebook has definitively
arrived.
It starts literally at the top of
the prospectus -- with the lead
underwriter. Facebook chose
Morgan Stanley, the last
remaining white-shoe firm,
which traces its lineage to J.P.
Morgan.
From the moment he got
started, Mark Zuckerberg, an
outsider without significant
family connections, was able to
attract members of the
establishment. At Harvard,
some of his first funding came
from the Winklevoss twins,
who were portrayed inThe
Social Networkas aristocratic,
rich-guy rowers from
Greenwich, Conn.
The roster of significant
investors also reveals that
members of the establishment
-- in Silicon Valley, New York,
Boston, Washington, Russia and
Hong Kong -- clamored to be a
part of the company, even
when it was not clear it would
be a juggernaut.
Soon after Zuckerberg moved
out to Silicon Valley, he began
to attract the attention of
established players. Peter Thiel ,
a co-founder of Paypal and
ringleader of a group of
technology entrepreneurs, in
2004 became the first outsider
investor in the company,
putting in a reported $500,000
for stock worth 10 percent of
the company at the time.
Next came the establishment
venture capital firms: Accel
Partners , the huge global
venture capital firm, which
invested $12.7 million in 2005
and now holds an 11 percent
stake; Greylock Partners , which
was founded in 1965 and has a
long and distinguished history
in the field, came on board in
2006, along with Meritech
Capital Partners .
Once Facebook gained critical
mass, heavyweight
corporations, the classic second
and third movers, came
knocking on the door. In 2006,
Interpublic ( IPG ), the gigantic
advertising conglomeratem
bought a sliver of Facebook for
$5 million. (It has already sold
half its stake ). And in 2007, the
largest software company in
the world, Microsoft ( MSFT ),
paid $240 million for a 1.6
percent stake . The global rich,
eager to get in on the next big
thing, followed in the footsteps
of the corporations. Li-Ka shing,
one of the wealthiest men in
Hong Kong, invested in two
different transactions in 2007
and 2008. Yuri Milner, Russia's
dominant entrepreneur, bought
a stake in the company for
$200 million in 2009. In 2011,
Goldman Sachs ( GS ) came up
with a way to let its clients in
on the Facebook action.
Of course, as a cash-generating
machine, Facebook didn't really
need any of this aristocratic
capital. It did, however, need
grown-up advice and
supervision on how to
transition from a start-up to a
titan. And, here, again, the
prospectus shows Zuckerberg's
ability to tap into the
establishment. Top executives
include COO Sheryl Sandberg, a
double Harvard graduate, a
veteran of the Clinton White
House and Google ( GOOG ). The
board of directors includes
Marc Andreesen, who founded
Netscape, and Reed Hastings,
the chief executive officer at
Netflix ( NFLX ). Then there are
the requisite graybeards from
Washington, such as Donald
Graham, CEO of the Washington
Post Company, and Erskine
Bowles, former White House
chief of staff in the Clinton
years and co-head of the
Bowles-Simpson Commission.
There's a certain irony in this.
IfThe Social Networkis to
believed, Facebook started in
part as a reaction to an
establishment that was keeping
Mark Zuckerberg and his nerdy
buddies out. It then morphed
quickly from an elitist network
-- remember, at first you had to
be a student at Harvard to get
onto Facebook -- into a
remarkably democratic and
open network. At the World
Economic Forum in Davos last
week, I attended a session in
which Sandberg spoke of how
the company and technology
were allowing those whose
voices had yet to be heard to
be broadcast loudly throughout
the world.
In other words, Zuckerberg and
his team have stormed the
establishment's barriers by
empowering the non-
establishment and allowing for
the creation of new social
networks. In doing so, they've
created untold wealth for
themselves. But because the
establishment is smart enough
to be open to new ideas, many
of the already-rich are going to
get much richer as a result of
Facebook's IPO.

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Facebook. 5 Billion dollar IPO!!! The investment opportunity of a lifetime...

Facebook is going Public, how long before its not free anymore?

"Social networking giant Facebook plans to go public, files for IPO to raise $5 billion"

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I found this snippit very interesting: "Joe Magyer, advisor and senior analyst with the Motley Fool, estimates that investors would be buying Facebook for 25 times sales when they could buy Google at five times sales, equivalent to setting money on fire without striking a match." But do read the whole thing... it's enlightening..
Facebook IPO filing shines a light on company's finances

Why would Facebook ever make an IPO... They must have some huge plans... Haha

Congratulation!!! Mark juckerberg..
$5-billion IPO to make Facebook worth $100 billion

Mark Zuckerberg will be the richest man in america in two years ,facebook ipo is coming to the market ,wao how can you be broke in 2004 and in 2012 be 1 of the 10 richest man in america waooo i love america ,,..only in america....i will buy some stock in facebook ticker FB ....i how he help does in need. life bless you with that used to make this world better...

Facebook files for $5 billion IPO | via @CNN
Facebook files for $5 billion IPO

Just read the Facebook IPO filing. 5 billion? Adds up to round $6 a head. I want my six dollars.