Mark Zuckerberg’s Big Facebook Mistake ⇥ forbes.com

Nathan Vardi, writing for Forbes:

Waiting eight years to conduct an IPO, however, has turned out to be an impossible problem to manage. The hype associated with the hottest company in Silicon Valley had created massive expectations and lots of shareholders with tons of stock looking for an exit. […]

Zuckerberg & Co., might have not been so late to embrace mobile or might have had more urgency to develop a monetizing strategy had Facebook faced the trading hordes earlier.

That’s what I said.