Is Facebook Worth $100 Billion?

[OttoVonBismarck]

I have no idea who you are talking to but your points do not address the fact the guy cant do what a CEO in his position needs to do and that is communicate will with the investment community - especially after such a high initial public offering price.

Also it is striking that Otto knows nothing about minority shareholder rights but feels perfectly qualifies to say that others who raise it are idiots.

Is there some kind of wierd facebook apologist coolaid going around.

No, I've just yet to hear you or DGuller explain why Zuckerberg should step down, or present evidence that he's done something that would allow minority shareholders to force him out.

Do you:

1. Think minority shareholders could force him out over anything he's done?

2. If so, please point us to some printed regulation or code that would support your assertion.

If not, why should Zuckerberg care? 

[garbon]

I don't think the suggestion is because Z needs to but rather that the company would be better off if he focused on the creative and let someone else take up CEO now.

[alfred russel]

I have no idea who you are talking to but your points do not address the fact the guy cant do what a CEO in his position needs to do and that is communicate will with the investment community - especially after such a high initial public offering price.

I don't think that this is relevant to the job of a modern American CEO. For your larger public companies, investment presentations by the CEO are prepared for him and are heavily vetted if not written by legal. For the Q&A sessions, companies anticipate the questions that will be ask and provide the CEO with responses--also vetted if not written by legal, and when a question is not anticipated the CEO usually falls back on talking points.

Facebook has made a strategic decision not to concern themselves with the short term move in the stock price, which seems a legit decision to me. In the longer term, any effect of Zuckerberg wearing a hoodie to meetings on Wall Street is going to be overwhelmed by the financial results of the company.

[Capetan Mihali]

WTF is a pension fund anyway??

Sorry, I've never worked anywhere that has offered these "pension" things

2030 is when mine vests.  Only 18 to go...

It may not vest til then, but it pleated long ago...