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To Be a Fly on the Wall at Facebook on IPO Day

Harvard Business Review

In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. Then, in a seemingly unscientific frenzy in a paneled room on Wall Street, the bankers decide what price to place on the opening shares, and when to start selling them. The conference room filled.

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