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I agree with everything you said except this:

> thinking back to the prices paid on secondary markets pre-IPO. Staunch FB defenders argued this was useful price discovery

I'm no FB defender, but doesn't the IPO placement of 421 million shares at $38 indicate that the secondary markets had it correct? The decline, albeit soon and somewhat swift, occurred afterwards.



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