This made me go back and find a couple of Facebook threads right after IPO that made predictions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719975 (Facebook is not worth $33 billion) - This was more than a year before the IPO. The market cap is 10x that today. Lots of poor predictions but also some cautious optimism from some people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719975 (Facebook is not worth $33 billion) - This was more than a year before the IPO. The market cap is 10x that today. Lots of poor predictions but also some cautious optimism from some people.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4002730 (FB down 8% at opening) - Some rubbish number pattern matching and lots of doom and gloom. Interesting