September 18, 2020 Welcome to this edition of The Reader, a weekly roundup of Fortune stories and insights.
It's been another eventful week. Snowflake had one of the buzziest IPOs ever. Oracle won the battle for TikTok, but Trump has announced a download ban on the app (and on WeChat). Nvidia bought Arm to create an A.I. computing juggernaut. Walmart+ launched and is poised to poach millions of customers from Amazon Prime. Tech stocks, to the relief of investors, rebounded after a drop early this month.
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“From the technical glitches to the mobile guidance controversy, it would be difficult to characterize Facebook’s IPO, which occurred three years ago today, as anything but disaster. (Just ask Reid Hoffman, a Facebook investor and LinkedIn co-founder, who called it “a pretty egregious fuck-up.”) The ghost of that disaster haunted Facebook for its first year as a publicly traded company, with lackluster stock performance and criticisms over its slowness to the mobile trend.
But today, Facebook (FB) is the toast of Wall Street. Worth $226 billion, Facebook’s stock trades at a rich 81x price-to-earnings multiple. Anyone holding shares at the IPO has seen their value more than double.” —How Facebook overcame its disastrous IPO by Erin Griffith, May 2015 . This email was sent to newsletter@newslettercollector.com Unsubscribe | Edit your newsletter subscriptions
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