> Even with the disaster that was the Facebook IPO, if you held for a little over a year you'd be up nicely. It could be argued that the Facebook IPO pricing w

> Even with the disaster that was the Facebook IPO, if you held for a little over a year you'd be up nicely. It could be argued that the Facebook IPO pricing was absolutely brilliant, in that Facebook and its selling shareholders received (what in retrospect was) top dollar under the then-extant market conditions, instead of in effect giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to the fortunate few who were able to purchase IPO shares.