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From Boom to Gloom? Doom Looms Soon
Hamilton Nolan · 10/15/15 03:25PMHamilton Nolan · 06/18/15 01:49PM
Vice Is the Tech Bubble
Hamilton Nolan · 03/25/14 10:16AMYour Angry Yelp Reviews Are Worth More Than A Billion Dollars
Adrian Chen · 03/02/12 10:23AMWhine-aggregating service Yelp went public today, and is currently trading at $24.60 a share, which values the company at around $1.43 billion, according to Reuters. If this IPO were a Yelp listing, there would be a bunch of reviews like: "Not a bad IPO when you're drunk at night and nothing else is open, but WAY WAY WAY over-priced for what you get."
Mark Zuckerberg Takes Credit for Populist Revolutions Now That Facebook's Gone Public
Adrian Chen · 02/02/12 12:13PMDavid Choe Just Made $200 Million For Painting Facebook Office with Erotic Art in 2005
Nell Jensen · 02/01/12 11:46PMIf then-President of Facebook Sean Parker had come to you in 2005, asked you to paint his new offices with a bunch of cocks, and then offered to pay you in either a few thousand dollars in cold hard cash or just the equivalent in company stock, you would probably have gone for the cash, right? Particularly if the company seemed on the whole sort of "pointless" to you, as it did to so many of us around then even though we were already becoming addicted to it? Fortunately for the painter, wild child graffiti artist David Choe, he picked the stock, which the New York Times points out is now about to be worth $200 million:
Facebook Reveals How Staggeringly Rich And Popular It's Become
Ryan Tate · 02/01/12 05:54PMThe Insufferable Facebook IPO 'News' Frenzy Begins Tomorrow
Ryan Tate · 01/31/12 10:39PMFacebook will file to go public tomorrow, in case you missed the rolling thunder bombardment of news articles this week, or in the months preceding. There won't be the faintest reason for the average person to care about this IPO until shares actually start selling months from now, but in the meantime you should steel yourself for endless breathless hype pandemonium. Oh, it's going to be awful.
Source Reveals Facebook Is Swimming In Cash
Ryan Tate · 12/15/11 10:00AMA well-placed mole has forwarded us the Silicon Valley equivalent of hard-core pornography: an explicit look at Facebook's finances. They're even more staggering than we expected. A gusher of profits has left the social network with a cash hoard to rival established companies like 3M, eBay and Yahoo.
Mark Zuckerberg Wants $10 Billion By Summer
Ryan Tate · 11/28/11 07:33PMOh, Good: The Groupon Bubble Is Already Popping
Ryan Tate · 11/22/11 06:14PMYelp Will Go Public Barring Some Sort of Miracle
Ryan Tate · 11/17/11 06:19PMLet's Rewrite Securities Law for Facebook
Ryan Tate · 11/08/11 10:21PMTwo senators introduced legislation to help Facebook further evade a 47-year-old SEC disclosure rule and take on a slew of new investors. Because that's the problem in America lately, you see: Corporations are too well regulated, and we know too much about the inner workings of large, heavily capitalized institutions.
The Groupon IPO Will Be Huge (God Help Us)
Ryan Tate · 11/03/11 07:12PMGroupon goes public tomorrow, and the financially frightful coupon startup should be a stock market hit: With about 10 times more prospective buyer than shares, the stock priced today at $20, up from an expected $16 - $18. So it looks like the tech bubble, inflated heretofore by private investment deals, is going public. How exciting.
Deal of the Day: Groupon Now Only Worth $12 Billion
Ryan Tate · 10/19/11 07:31PMWhat a basketcase: Groupon has slashed its proposed valuation to $12 billion from $30 billion as it ramps up for an initial public offering. So if you're in the market for a technically insolvent online discounter with shady accounting, now is the time to buy! Goldman Sachs is involved, so you just know it's a good deal.
Groupon's Value May Have Plunged 88 Percent
Ryan Tate · 10/03/11 05:06PMInvestors are willing to gamble less and less on Groupon's imaginary future profits, various fund managers told Bloomberg, thanks to the near constant reminders about just how imaginary those profits are. One fund manager thinks the online coupon startup has seen its value fall to as low as $3 billion from $25 billion.