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Of course if he was a real maverick he would tell the bankers and the stock market to stuff it. He has more customers on his site than the Nasdaq has share buy
by excuse-me 14y ago
Of course if he was a real maverick he would tell the bankers and the stock market to stuff it.
He has more customers on his site than the Nasdaq has share buyers/sellers. If he decided to reinvent stock markets and simply sell shares directly to facebook members then you would see some panic!
After all if shares are all traded electronically why do we need a room full of scrolling displays pretending to be ticker tape and opened by a bell? Why not have buying and selling shares in any company a feature of facebook ?
- frabcus 14y agoAt last! There are good reasons, but they're all regulatory, and there are workarounds. Let's have some proper disruption of the finance industry, please. Now!
- johnyzee 14y agoExactly. I was a lot more impressed by Larry and Sergei's IPO, where they really gave a fat middle finger to the Street. Who gives a fuck about a hoodie. This is just a branding exercise to show how 'real' Mark Zuckerberg is and I would be surprised if there wasn't some high-powered PR people involved in shaping his public image, including the whole hoodie thing and training him in public speaking (and possibly placing fawning stories like this one).
- Tichy 14y agoI had the same idea. I think FB even has all the infrastructure in place already. They have Facebook coins, virtual goods, transactions. Shares could be just another virtual good.