Facebook shares just keep going up on SecondMarket, a platform for buying and selling private company stock. Sales are now being closed at $50/share, we’ve heard from a source (and we’ve confirmed that the best asking price is also $50/share). That values Facebook at around $22.5 billion.
That’s a 100% increase since January, just a couple of months ago.
Part of the quick increase may be due to tightening supply. Current Facebook employees are no longer allowed to sell stock, we’ve heard but have not confirmed, due to possible securities laws violations. If that’s accurate, and it makes sense, it can partially explain the bubble like price increase in Facebook stock.
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Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original...
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