Thursday, May 24, 2012

Average Facebook employee has lost $844K since IPO




Facebook’s outside investors aren’t the only ones feeling cheated, if you can trust the NY Post report.

In Silicon Valley, where tech workers are lured with piles of stock and promises of instant riches, the social network’s employees are sitting on sinking shares that they can’t cash in for several months.
Since Facebook sold shares to the public at $38 a pop last Friday, the average employee has lost an estimated $844,000, based on yesterday’s closing price of $32. Shares rose 3.2 percent yesterday, their first daily gain.

Facebook’s cool-company status is in jeopardy if the stock-price erosion continues, sapping the super-sized growth that attracted workers in the first place, recruiters said….

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/silicon_losers_y4xMg7vKwANTwx30RW2erO#ixzz1voCJw8HM

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