Will Face Book, a Internet site, be the next IPO that will be as lucrative as Goggle?
Glendora asks:
I was watching Esther Dyson on Charlie Rose, and she said she could not say when or if Face Book would become a IPO, because it would be insiders trading, but if it did it would revel
goggle. She is a scientist than was involved with DNA markers, and I do not know how that relates to Face Book, but she seem to know what she was talking about. I know IPOs are a risk as are all stocks, but maybe this is one to watch
I was watching Esther Dyson on Charlie Rose, and she said she could not say when or if Face Book would become a IPO, because it would be insiders trading, but if it did it would revel
goggle. She is a scientist than was involved with DNA markers, and I do not know how that relates to Face Book, but she seem to know what she was talking about. I know IPOs are a risk as are all stocks, but maybe this is one to watch
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maybe VMware IPO was as lucrative as Goggle Face Book has to have a lot of money to beat Goggle and VMware IPO but i think they will.
I doubt it.
While facebook is huge now… everyone still remembers Friendster (i speak of it as if it were dead…)
Facebook could be out of fashion tomorrow. Think about it — Google has Orkut, it’s own social networking site, but it really has’t spent the time / energy / $ to develop it. If google, the most popular company / search engine / e-mail provider to the target demographic for social networking decided tomorrow that it wanted to be #1 in social networking… facebook would be done.
That kinda stuff makes an IPO very unlikely. Things that must remain “popular” to exist are scary. Think about any retailer or fashion designer that has just one product. Very few are public, and the ones that are (Crocs for example) are working hard to diversify, knowing their one product might not be “cool” tomorrow.