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Comment by jussij

> but that was just free money

Except the employees would have been sacrificing a higher salary for these shares so they where hardly free.

> The only people hurt by the initial over valuation were the people that bought high

The people that got burnt where those that read the IPO document and assumed it was not a work of fiction. The people that made money where insider trading on information not yet public.

The others that will get hurt are the next set of companies that try to float. The market will be reluctant to make the same mistake again.

Bad IPOs damage the credibility of the market and dmaage the ability of companies to float and that Facebook IPO was just a joke.

parent jussij 14 years ago

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