Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff said The Facebook IPO will be the biggest financial event in the tech industry for 2012.
Nick Einhorn, an analyst at Renaissance Capital, said he expects Facebook to file its IPO paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the first quarter and start trading on Wall Street later in the year.
According to The Telegraph an IPO will make Zuckerberg one of the world’s richest men and many of Facebook’s 3,000 employees exceedingly wealthy.But long-term observers of Facebook warn that an IPO carries serious risks for a company that has enjoyed executing its long-term vision of reshaping how almost 1bn people communicate and organise their lives online from the privacy of its Silicon Valley headquarters.
