Facebook used to think that Silicon Valley is the next Google, but the company’s top selling it in the hands of its stock, its price also surprised the industry than previously estimated to be much lower.
Just a few months before the social networking site Facebook has also been considered to be the next Silicon Valley, Google. Microsoft in October last year bought a more expensive is the site of a small number of shares, making the overall valuation of Facebook reached 15 billion U.S. dollars, for shareholders of the company’s IPO is to cash in with expectations.
No doubt such frequent and low-priced shares to a sell-off of emerging IT companies, is not normal. In the past, the company’s emerging entrepreneurs the opportunity is not convertible into shares of the company’s cash, unless the company is listed or sold. Once these executives sold stock, which will affect the confidence of supporters of the company and those outstanding shares of the company staff. Facebook executives undoubtedly selling, triggered the industry and internal disputes.
In addition Facebook is taking measures to limit those employees who left the company to sell shares, it requires its employees and signed an agreement to ban the equivalent of 3.75 billion U.S. dollars higher than the valuation of the sale price of the stock. This meaning is significant, on the one hand, employees can discourage the sale of shares of enthusiasm, because most of the staff that the company’s shares not far from here, on the other hand, can help avoid Facebook uplift their bodies from the IRS official valuation. Once the upgrade because the official valuation of the company staff of the tax will rise rapidly, no doubt this will lead to the loss of high-level personnel.