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Great chart! Did you make it? Really interesting data.
If I was a facebook (ex) employee, I would be cashing out too. Google+ is going to steal a lot of users me thinks. Its a ways off, but facebook will no longer have zero competition. Zuckerberg said he wanted facebook to be the next myspace. Well guess what…
With some of these companies (looking at you, Groupon), the launch window was probably measured in months, and they may have missed it. With some of the others (yo, Fuckerberg!), the jury’s still out.
As for the rest, I wonder how many of those 10+ year-old companies are refraining from going public because they either (a) don’t need the capital because they’re profitable, (b) can’t justify the additional accounting requirements in the post-SarbOx regime, or (c) some combination of both?
I still hold some GSVC, because even in an environment in which “fair market value” is mark-to-sheer-fantasy, ex-employees of privately-held companies are likely to sell at a discount. If they really believed in their company’s prospects, they’d still be working there.