Analyzing Facebook’s NASDAQ Debut

The Takeaway

Facebook will make its much-anticipated debut today on NASDAQ as a public company. As of last night, Facebook’s offer had risen to $38 a share, putting the total value of the company at $104 billion. But for investors who got burned in the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, all of the hype and hysteria over Facebook is a little too familiar.
Our two guests today lived through the dot-com boom and were there when the bubble burst. Dan Wagner is an Internet entrepreneur and Henry Blodget is the CEO and editor-in-chief of Business Insider.

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