How Facebook beat Wall Street with data and tripled its share price
Jul21
Maurice Coyle is the CEO and co-founder of HeyStaks, a search analytics startup that helps mobile operators monetize subscriber data usage and increases conversions for e-commerce stores. Facebook went public on May 18, 2012 in one of the most hotly anticipated tech company IPOs ever. The company priced its share at the upper end of its range at $38 and didn’t leave a cent on the table. Naturally, Facebook was cool about the whole thing, spending its time hacking the NASDAQ button (with Irish engineer Colm Doyle on the team) instead of getting haircuts and ironing their shirts before Wall Street got its first glimpse at…
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