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The Facebook Offering: How It Compares
Facebook's IPO will be bigger because they put off their IPO as long as possible. In fact they got special dispensation from the SEC to delay the IPO even longer. So comparing FB in 2012 to Google in 2004 is not really useful.
jlgreco
on May 18, 2012
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Google IPO'd six years after they were founded, Facebook waited 8 years. The comparison is not
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unwarranted I think.
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