What Will Facebook?s Perfect Storm Of An IPO Leave Behind?

The Facebook IPO was supposed to be Silicon Valley's shining moment.?It's the book-end for the decade of recovery that followed the first wave of consumer Internet companies. It was the debutante ball for the next great Silicon Valley company, the one with the most potential to last a generation or longer. Instead, it's turned into a public relations disaster. If we look a little more closely though, the Facebook IPO probably has more devastating consequences for the rest of the late-stage private market than it does for the company itself.

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