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What Went Wrong With The Facebook Flotation?

06 June 2012
In this week’s episode:

David Kuo chats with Share Advisor analyst Charly Travers about the recent Facebook flotation. They look at why Facebook is unique and examine how it differs from other social media businesses, such as Twitter and LinkedIn. Charly explains Facebook's revenue-generating capabilities and delves into what went wrong with the initial public offering. A transcript of this podcast is also available.

 

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Charly Travers and David Kuo
Charly Travers and David Kuo

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theRealGrinch 06 Jun 2012 , 1:24pm

depends your viewpoint as to whether its gone wrong.

Smiley61 06 Jun 2012 , 8:05pm

Caveat emptor!

Do your own research. Many commentators remarked that $38 was too high a price to pay, and the market agrees!

ANuvver 06 Jun 2012 , 10:41pm

Grinch:
You are Bono and I claim my £5.

sonrisa1 07 Jun 2012 , 2:52pm

Ludicrous price I might have considered $0,38 this is bjust a lot of useless hot air & will probably gradually sink further, shareholders have no say(voting rights) in what happens, the financial world is irrational & very FOOLISH but not in a good way.

AlysonThomson 07 Jun 2012 , 5:54pm

Considering the price was based on potential advertising and one of FB's existing major advertisers cancelled just before the flotation, the launch pirce was far too high.

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