Comment on Why Facebook may never have to go public at all by Mark

In what universe would they pass up the liquidity of public markets? Only public markets would allow them to recognize billions of dollars in stock sales across the multitude of current owners. SecondMarket and private placements have not been able to provide that kind of liquidity nor would they. Furthermore, publicly traded stock is a far more valuable currency with which to buy things than privately traded stock. While I get that Mark Z. probably would be content to stay private and not have a bank account with $20 billion in it, I don't believe the majority of his investors would. And for that matter, the people who bought all the stock in the offerings through GS, SecondMarket, etc. all want an IPO, not some hope that others are coming in privately. Clearly your headline is click/linkbait, but the notion is really silly.

Comment on Why Facebook may never have to go public at all by Mark

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