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SteveC on Jan 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I'm not buying Facebook

Bill Gates was another person who didn't want to do an IPO. He almost cancelled it a number of times during the process as he felt it would just be a distraction to actually getting real business done. Mark Zuckerberg could have similar concerns.

Swannie on Jan 5, 2011 [–]

I didn't know that. It certainly sounds reasonable, but is that what happened at Microsoft, after their IPO?

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