Will Facebook's IPO Mark The Beginning Of The End?

www.forbes.com:

Remember when Netscape went public in 1995, kicking off a torrent of investment in new Internet companies that lasted for five years? Well, now we’re waiting for another Netscape-caliber IPO: the first public stock offering by Facebook, which is expected to come sometime next year. The deal will no doubt value the company at tens of billions of dollars, or more, and make many, many people into multi-millionaires, if not billionaires.

Except this IPO will spell the end of the party, not the beginning. I’m convinced that the frothiness we’re seeing right now in Silicon Valley cannot last. And it won’t last, I believe, past the point at which Facebook finally sells shares to the public.

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Comments

[Paradigman]

11:38 PM on 11/28/2011

Time to program a "Dislike" button on Facebook now ... seems Capitalist Imperialist Sympathizers like you Mark Zuckerberg don't seem to get the picture. Not everyone has to "Like" everything about what's on Facebook and who is on it, and what the product is based upon. Facebook became the new MySpace ... a commodity slowly waiting to phase out. Because Zuckerberg didn't listen to people who gave him good ideas, on putting a Dislike button, a Ads blocker option, and a Ticker blocker option. These programmings combined with failed codings in Shockwave Flash games creates Drags, Lags and Freeze along with the Blue Screen of Death on today's computers.
I hate to say it, but it sucks to be Mark Zuckerberg ... oh, just because he has all the money he does doesn't mean anything. This country had all the money in the world and a recession hit it. Mark Zuckerberg will suffer the same fate for being overly-materialistic.

[II Quorum II]

01:30 AM on 10/17/2011

The Facebook sale shows how idiotic humanity has become.

[crestmia]

04:05 PM on 10/16/2011

They go IPO and I'm gone....In fact I am gone by tomorrow !!