Talk:Initial public offering of Facebook

Aftermath
I wonder if this should be called "Repercussions" and break down by repercussions for the various institutions, i.e. a section for Facebook, a section for Morgan Stanley, a section for SecondMarket? The Sound and the Fury (talk) 17:12, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Available stock
I couldn't find any reference on the actual equity stake facebook was selling during its IPO to the public. What percentage of the company do the 421 Million shares that were sold during the IPO represent? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.219.0.140 (talk) 02:26, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Comments written in the article text
A user wrote some comments responding to parts of the article in the actual article text. While the additions were removed they bring up some interesting points that you may want to see. I am reproducing them here for reference; you can find the originals here: (largest for American, private-sector companies? ICBC went public at a higher valuation and raised more money in its IPO JoeyRR (talk) 07:07, 11 June 2012 (UTC)) (Not really a good comparison here: Zuckerberg has a larger share than any of the institutions you named here, so on a percentage basis it will appear to be smaller. Also, he doesn't have to deal with client redemptions as the VC and mutual funds do. JoeyRR (talk) 07:05, 11 June 2012 (UTC)) Reproduced by CaseyPenk (talk) 23:51, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot CaseyPenk; at a glance it's not immediately clear which parts it is referring to. I will take a look when I get a bit of time and figure out whether there are factual errors here that we need to fix. TheSoundAndTheFury (talk) 17:43, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

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Reverted move
I've reverted the undiscussed move to Initial public offering of Meta. In 2012 the company was called Facebook, Inc., and in articles about the past we refer to entities by their historic name. I'm not clear whether that rule applies to article titles, so this does bear further discussion. But IMHO the IPO can only be meaninfully be said to be for Facebook, Inc. without revisionism.

Llew Mawr (talk) 21:55, 29 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Llew Mawr, given the previous move revert, just curious if you'd be willing to comment on the requested move below. Thanks! -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 13:16, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Requested move 1 August 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (non-admin closure) - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 22:31, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Initial public offering of Facebook → Initial public offering of Facebook, Inc. – As I have argued on the Criticism of Facebook talk page and per the precision criterion of WP:Article titles, the content in this article is about Facebook, Inc. (i.e. the company) when it filed its IPO in 2012 rather than the Facebook service, and as it is about the history of the company rather than the product's history, it should be titled Initial public offering of Facebook, Inc. As the preceding section on this talk page notes about a previous move revert, the company in 2012 was called Facebook, Inc. rather than Meta Platforms as it is today. -- CommonKnowledgeCreator (talk) 21:48, 1 August 2023 (UTC) The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Oppose. First, "Meta" has nothing to do with anything in 2012, so not sure why that was brought up.  Facebook-the-business was known as "Facebook" for short in the era.  There's no ambiguity problem here - it's perfectly clear what the article is about, and the lede can state it was about Facebook, Inc. DBA "Facebook."  We routinely use the "common name" version of company names rather than "full" names.  SnowFire (talk) 06:01, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose Of course the IPO refers to the corporation rather the service. But we don’t have to include “Inc.” in the title to be clear about that. It’s already clear. An IPO of the service would be nonsensical. —В²C ☎ 22:18, 8 August 2023 (UTC)