So if you haven’t heard, Facebook went public at 11:00 a.m. this morning. As Ron Burgandy said, this is kind of a big deal. Financial scholars have tried to predict its opening price for months now, which ended up at $42 per share. Here’s a crazy fact: 82 million shares were traded in the first 30 seconds. The company is offering 421 million shares at around $40, which could raise nearly $18.5 billion in its IPO. Mark Zuckerberg is a very rich man.
