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spdy on Aug 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook loses 3 more executives

As expected. Many people have and will leave Facebook. They came to cash-out thats what they did after the IPO. And now they are off to new ventures.

Same has happend and will happen to all big hits who go IPO. You will lose a lot of talent. Maybe this was one of the reasons they pushed out the IPO date so many times.

Golden Handcuffs are good sometimes.

drumdance on Aug 2, 2012 [–]

I thought they were locked up until 6 months after the IPO?

cjrp on Aug 2, 2012 | [–]

3 months for some people: http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/05/17/facebook-sho...

Also, once your options have vested, nothing to stop you leaving before the lock-up expires.

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