We largely steer clear of companies going public here at Engadget, but Facebook and its zillions of users warrants an atypical tip of the hat. The outfit has announced that starting tomorrow, 421,233,615 shares of its common stock will be up for grabs at a price to the public of $ 38 per share. It’ll trade on the NASDAQ under the symbol “FB,” with the outfit offering 180,000,000 shares of Class A common stock and selling stockholders offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock. Closing of the offering is expected to occur on May 22nd, subject to “customary closing conditions.” And with that, we’d like to congratulate a plethora of new billionaires on… well, being billionaires. Don’t work too hard, guys and girls.
Celebratory video is after the break.
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