funcktional

Ask HN : Should I buy Facebook stock?

Posted by funcktional on Thursday May 17, 2012 @03:17AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Stock market newb here. I've mostly only owned my employer's stock. Would it be a wise decision to buy facebook stock as soon as they IPO? My brief research says otherwise; after a 6 month'plateau' period, employees will be able to sell their stock and early investors will cash in bringing the price down.

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Re:Frustration, Disappointment And Apathy: My Years At Microsoft on Sunday April 22, 2012 @07:57PM (#3876599)

Disclaimer: MS Employee To add to his comments about higher-ups dismissing his ideas. I don't know if the OP was in a technical role or not. But I regularly see emails from guys in my team with some radical new idea that they think will work. In 99.99% of the cases, the ideas don't work (Scalability issues, cost, complexity etc). It's very important for employees to also accept and see the flaws in your ideas rather than start bawling and throwing a fit. Likewise, it's very important for the leadership to keep encouraging these ideas no matter how stupid they are. Our partner/principal SDEs do just that. They're always open to new ideas. This probably varies wildly from team to team though.