BlackRock has offered to buy about $80M in Twitter stock from early employees that would value...

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Stone Fox Capital Comments (4617)
 
just an offer...
26 Jan, 06:27 PM Reply Like

LYogi Comments (517)
 
Twitter whenever it goes public is going to be an amazing stock to own. The sky's the limit, I see twitter existing longer than Facebook
26 Jan, 09:02 PM Reply Like

Davidoff Comments (177)
 
A site valued at $9B, the world must be going crazy again. The next bubble is already coming...
26 Jan, 09:51 PM Reply Like

value.seeker1001 Comments (15)
 
I sure hope not.
27 Jan, 05:12 PM Reply Like

GaltMachine Comments (930)
 
The investing gains from startups these days are clearly happening in the private arena. The path to IPO used to be a sub $1 billion company that needed to raise money to hit the next level hence the potential leverage of returns for IPO investors.

When you eliminate all the upside before it hits the mkt, the only people that benefit are the ones selling the stock at the IPO date. Someday investors will wake up and hopefully get rid of SarBox for small cap companies. We have literally destroyed the small IPO market as a result of Congressional overreach but what else is new?

The Fat Finger of Government is everywhere.
27 Jan, 11:26 AM Reply Like

idkmybffjill Comments (570)
 
I agree with you lol. SarbOx was passed in response to Enron, correct? Is there something else we can pass that will still help bring legitimacy to accounting/audits while reducing costs for smaller companies? Any ideas?
27 Jan, 02:40 PM Reply Like

Philip Marlowe Comments (175)
 
If you do not like sox, then feel free to invest in chinese companies, where the only limit to higher earnings is the cfo's imagination. Personally, i would prefer to actually have financial reports that i can trust.

It is true that tech startups hate sox, but that does not mean sox is a bad thing. We saw the reasons with facebook -- sometimes when you have to do honest accounting the results do not quite measure up with the hype. As an investor, i prefer to have sox around. You can always choose to believe the hype if you want. But having more reliable information is always an advantage.
27 Jan, 04:29 PM Reply Like