GSV Capital Buys Facebook Stock At $70 Billion Valuation; Its Own Stock Pops 21 Percent

Everyone is trying to get pre-IPO Facebook shares any way they can. Some investors purchase shares on secondary markets like SecondMarket and SharesPost. Others broker private sales. Today, GSV Capital, a publicly traded investment management company, announced that it has purchased a small number of shares (225,000) at a price ($29.28) which would give Facebook an implied $70 billion valuation. Although GSV Capital doesn't say, this most likely was a private sale. Facebook passed $70 billion on the secondary markets in January, and hit $85 billion in March. It's such a small number of shares and a single trade, so you can't make any generalizations about the implied market valuation of Facebook. What's more interesting is what the trade did for GSV's stock. It is trading up 21 percent this morning at $12.45.

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