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The Facebook Offering: How It Compares

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value
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today's dollars
The Tech I.P.O.'s
Since 1980, there have been about 2,400 technology, Internet and telecom initial public offerings. Until this week, the largest by market capitalization was Google, which was valued at $23 billion, or about $28 billion in today’s dollars.
Year of I.P.O.