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LinkedIn IPO ... go for it?

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RichieZ said:
as a former employee who just had a liquidity event: today is a great day!
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Man, that is awesome. Any chance you'll tell us how much your options are worth? There's almost zero chance my company will ever go public, so I keep hoping we will get bought by a public company (another liquidity event that can cause options to become worth something).
 
Aharami said:
i know it IPO'd at $45, but what could the average joe buy in at? Google finance shows lowest at $83 this morning. So it is a case of only big time investors/investment managers/and institutions getting in at the $45 price pre-market?
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Yes, but even if you got in at $83 this morning. You would still have the opportunity to sell for a profit.
 
oh yea. very good profit ~36%. Too bad I wasn't expecting it to go so high. Looks like people are cashing in their profits now.
 
Ghiddy said:
Head just exploded. No one believes the growth is genuine. Your last sentence is exactly the type of logic that creates the bubble in the first place. Studies have shown that during a bubble no one actually believes the security they are buying is worth what they are paying for it. They only buy it because they believe it will rise in value anyway.
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So you're asking me why I'm interested in making money?
 
I know someone who's husband works at LinkedIn. He has $20k shares priced at $8 per share. She's having a great day today.
 
juiio said:
Good luck finding shares to short.
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I never understood how this works. If there is high demand for the stock, doesn't that mean there are a ton of people expecting the shares to rise in value? And therefore doesn't that mean there should be a lot of people willing to loan you shares?
 
Farmer said:
So you're asking me why I'm interested in making money?
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No, but your statement seemed kind of contradictory (kind of, but not really). Like you were saying, "damn, this won't end well; this stock is not worth that much." but then immediately buying some yourself.
 
Ghiddy said:
No, but your statement seemed kind of contradictory (kind of, but not really). Like you were saying, "damn, this won't end well; this stock is not worth that much." but then immediately buying some yourself.
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ever gamble?
 
sunzt said:
ever gamble?
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Yeah. I'm not really that into it, but I have dabbled. Your point?

I didn't say anything was wrong with people buying. Just that it was funny for one to comment on how people were herding into a bubble -- by definition, when the music stops someone's going to be on the losing end of these bets -- but then lamenting on not buying it yourself. Of course it's chance.

I find the self-propagating nature of bubbles really interesting.
 
If you hadn't gotten in yet, no point in getting in now, unless you wanna be stuck holding the bag. The price is trading on emotion, it'll die back down over the next week as people take profits. Those who are holding on hoping for a bigger payday is the only reason it won't tank as fast as it shot up but once the hype is gone, people will eventually let it go.
 
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