Venture Capital -- Putting a Price Tag on Facebook
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and EVELYN M. RUSLI
This is the point that Ali raised at the end of our class... here's a little video with a discussion of Facebook's astronomical valuation.... Is it really a bubble about to burst as Ali suggests?
What do you think? Leave a comment....
As DealBook reported, the popular social networking site Facebook has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investment firm, Digital Sky Technologies."
Perhaps the most interesting detail is that the investment values the company at $50 billion, making Facebook now worth more than companies like eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner.
In this video, DealBook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin and Evelyn M. Rusli discuss Facebook’s valuation.
Goldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook, the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter.
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