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# Facebook $100 Billion IPO “Likely” In Early 2012
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/facebook-100-billion-ipo-likely-in-early-2012/
- Published: 2011-06-13T15:10:22.000Z
- Updated: 2011-06-13T15:10:22.000Z
- Description: Facebook is likely to go public by the first quarter of 2012 at a valuation of $100 billion or more, according to reports surfacing today. The IPO is likely being. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/06/facebook-100-billion-ipo-likely-in-early-2012.html]
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****Facebook is likely to go public by the first quarter of 2012 at a valuation of $100 billion or more, according to reports surfacing today. The IPO is likely being triggered by a section of the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act known as “the 500 rule”. This rule mandates that once a private company has more than 500 investors, they must provide the SEC with quarterly financial reports like publicly traded companies do.**

Facebook as indicated that it expects to cross the 500 investor threshold later this year. The company is also hoping to use the IPO to retain top staffers, according to [CNBC](http://www.cnbc.com/id/43378490?ref=hypebot.com).

A Facebook spokesman declined to comment on an IPO. But last month, COO Sheryl Sandberg called a Facebook IPO “inevitable”.