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A comment on FB’s Amended S-1: 500M Mobile Users, Paid $300M Cash + 23M Shares For Instagram. Parent comment

Re:FB’s Amended S-1: 500M Mobile Users, Paid $300M Cash + 23... by bigdubs on Monday April 23, 2012 @05:00PM (#3880945)
The math on the valuation of the shares is a little more complicated than 1000mm - 300mm / 24mm.

The rumor that I heard (need to substantiate somewhere) is that the options were priced at a Facebook valuation of around ~75bn. It's impossible to accurately price these options without knowing the total # of Facebook shares issued so far.

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Re:FB’s Amended S-1: 500M Mobile Users, Paid $300M Cash + 23... by ajross on Monday April 23, 2012 @05:28PM (#3881066)
Shares come in different classes with different valuations in any case, there's no single number. Presumably zwigby is talking about the eventual market price of a post-IPO public share. But of course there's no requirement that these be issued 1:1 with the existing shares.
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