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yellowcanine

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14. Sometimes it pays to be a procrastinator. I was going to buy FB shares but just didn't get
Wed May 23, 2012, 11:15 AM
May 2012

around to it.

I read that as "Zuckerberg, Thief sell shares" BeyondGeography May 2012 #1
Same difference. Atman May 2012 #2
DUzy candidate! rocktivity May 2012 #3
and if you started a company that went IPO, you wouldn't sell some of your shares either? There is still_one May 2012 #5
Read the headline again BeyondGeography May 2012 #11
He is a thief, the whole facecrook racquet is a scam we can do it May 2012 #12
please explain frylock May 2012 #20
It certainly isn't worth what people paid for it, but they did so willingly 4th law of robotics May 2012 #37
Okay, kids...reality check... Atman May 2012 #17
I think that is pretty much what I said, it was wall street and the underwriters. However, still_one May 2012 #19
You are right, it is a casino. And the house always wins. Odin2005 May 2012 #39
Here is what I meant by that, and why it relates... Atman May 2012 #43
Sure it is the bag man's fault zeemike May 2012 #24
Does Zuckerberg still have a large majority share margin? JDPriestly May 2012 #44
I did, too! Odin2005 May 2012 #36
I read it as "Suckerberg, Thief sell shares" nt bupkus May 2012 #46
Another one DUzy Candidate! rocktivity May 2012 #49
DUZY ACCOMPLISHED!!! rocktivity May 2012 #63
My first DUZY! bupkus May 2012 #65
DUZY ACCOMPLISHED!!! rocktivity May 2012 #61
Noted BeyondGeography May 2012 #64
DUZY ACCOMPLISHED!!! rocktivity May 2012 #62
Doing EXACTLY What They Told EVERYONE They were going to do CBGLuthier May 2012 #4
Pump and dump KurtNYC May 2012 #6
zuckerberg did not pump it. Morgan stanley and the underwriters did, along with the wall street in still_one May 2012 #7
so what did Zuckerberg say the shares were worth? KurtNYC May 2012 #15
He is doing what every CEO is told to do by the underwriters when you go public. He didn't set the still_one May 2012 #21
Zuck said the shares would go to $44 within 6 months but he dumped at $37.66 KurtNYC May 2012 #26
He didn't dump anything. former9thward May 2012 #30
Can you imagine how low the price would be now if he sold 20% of his shares? KurtNYC May 2012 #31
He sold to pay taxes. It doesn't matter what he thought the price was going to be. former9thward May 2012 #33
To pay taxes on the sale of the shares he sold KurtNYC May 2012 #41
Do you think he has no income other than those shares? former9thward May 2012 #42
you are a sad fanboy,. Civilization2 May 2012 #45
You know nothing about business. former9thward May 2012 #48
+1 we can do it May 2012 #58
yup. closeupready May 2012 #8
+1. bemildred May 2012 #23
Vulture Capitalism anyone? Iliyah May 2012 #9
Nothing wrong with that, I'd do the same thing tularetom May 2012 #10
You mean the pie he stole from other students we can do it May 2012 #13
Exactly which other students ? dipsydoodle May 2012 #22
You mean the Winklevi? Odin2005 May 2012 #40
Sometimes it pays to be a procrastinator. I was going to buy FB shares but just didn't get yellowcanine May 2012 #14
Facebook, like Google, is just an ad spamming pyramid scheme. onehandle May 2012 #16
esp. if everyone used Firefox with AdBlock Plus plugin Roland99 May 2012 #25
Blaaah... I created (designed, programmed, ran, hosted) a social networking site octothorpe May 2012 #27
I will never click-thru on an ad. Esp. the ones with motion. Roland99 May 2012 #38
I use Chrome Google Bryn May 2012 #34
Google is VERY different from FB KurtNYC May 2012 #28
Facebook has like a tenth of the ad click rate that Google has fujiyama May 2012 #51
1.13 billion is barely a drop in the bucket in terms of what he owns in the company. iandhr May 2012 #18
Oooh! Barley in a bucket! Fuddnik May 2012 #29
To be fair... this is generally common... Fearless May 2012 #32
That's how IPOs go - big investors who get in early do well... polichick May 2012 #35
big investors who got in at $38 when it went public? wordpix May 2012 #54
Look up the criteria for getting in before the IPO - for each investment house... polichick May 2012 #55
wow, you know everything, right? wordpix May 2012 #59
I trade enough to know about this... polichick May 2012 #60
He's selling, I'm buying. Chan790 May 2012 #47
"Getting out while the getting's possible?" unkachuck May 2012 #50
Wasn't this already known? fujiyama May 2012 #52
Um, I know NOTHING about public offerings and CEO behavior Canuckistanian May 2012 #53
First they are required to disclose the sale ahead of time grantcart May 2012 #66
So let me get this outrage straight. Dreamer Tatum May 2012 #56
The SEC should investigate him, as well as Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs fully tawadi May 2012 #57
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