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		furburger on April 20, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook's Recruiting and Retention Problem it doesn't matter. employees only become rich if the stock goes crazy. lots of profitable companies have craptastic stocks.

jonknee on April 20, 2009 [–]

It matters completely, if Facebook can't get a plan together to make tons of money there won't be an IPO to bring in the fuck-you money. Right now they are unprofitable and have no great outlook that would lead to an IPO.

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