The Facebook IPO Effect: A Conversation with Alan Patricof & David Kirkpatrick

With its frenzied initial public offering on May 18, 2012, Facebook raised $16 billion, set a record for trading volume, and began life as a public company with a valuation of $104 billion. Now what?

In the wake of the most hotly-anticipated IPO since Google, Alan Patricof, founder and managing director of Greycroft Partners, and David Kirkpatrick, tech and business journalist and author of The Facebook Effect, discuss the implications for the social network, the investment community, and the broader tech-media sector.  

This event was streamed live with our partners at FORA.tv.

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Clips:
"Get Ready for an M&A Frenzy."

"Startups, forget the public markets."

Alan J. Patricof

Founder and Managing Director
Greycroft, LLC

Alan Patricof, a venture capital pioneer, founded Greycroft, LLC in 2006. Greycroft is a venture capital firm, with offices in New York and Los Angeles, focused on the digital media sector. The firm has two funds, Greycroft I, with committed capital of $75 million, and Greycroft II, which was initiated in 2010 with committed capital of $130 million. Prior to founding Greycroft, Patricof was the founder and chairman of Apax Partners, Inc. (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc.), the U.S. arm of Apax Partners, Worldwide, LP, now one of the world’s leading private equity firms with $41 billion under management or advice. During the past forty-plus years, he has participated in the financing and development of a large number of public and private companies. Companies that he has been involved with at the initial stages are Apple Computer, America Online, Cadence Systems, Office Depot, FORE Systems, Cellular Communications, Inc., IntraLinks, Audible, Inc. and The Huffington Post. Patricof is active in the New York and Washington communities as a board member of TechnoServe, Trickle Up Program, Global Advisory Board of Endeavor, Applied Sciences NYC advisory board, and the Initiative for Global Development (IGD) Leadership Council. In 2007, he was appointed to the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation by the President of the United States; he is currently serving his second term. From 1993 to 1995, he served as chairman of the White House Conference on Small Business Commission. Patricof holds a BS in finance from Ohio State University and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is married to his wife Susan for over forty years and he has three sons, Mark, Jonathan, James, as well as seven grandchildren, Lily, Nina, Jack, Chloe, Lila, Riley and Sawyer.

David Kirkpatrick
Author, Journalist
Founder & CEO, Techonomy

Author and journalist David Kirkpatrick is founder and CEO of Techonomy Media, which hosts the annual Techonomy conference, on the role of tech in business and social progress. The company also produces editorial content about technology's integral role in, increasingly, everything. He wrote the bestselling book The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World. It has been published in thirty-one countries, and was finalist for Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year and the Gerald Loeb Award.  Kirkpatrick was for many years senior editor for Internet and technology at Fortune Magazine where he wrote numerous cover stories and created Fortune's Brainstorm conference. Kirkpatrick writes regularly for Newsweek/Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, and Forbes. He earlier studied art and exhibited video at the Museum of Modern Art. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

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