Mary Meeker: Facebook IPO A 'Financial Tsunami'

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Partner Mary Meeker pinned most of the blame for the poor performance of Facebook’s initial public offering on the technical issues experienced by Nasdaq, calling the IPO a “financial tsunami” while speaking at AllThingsD’s D10 Conference Wednesday.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Partner Mary Meeker pinned most of the blame for the poor performance of Facebook’s initial public offering on the technical issues experienced by Nasdaq, calling the IPO a “financial tsunami” while speaking at AllThingsD’s D10 Conference Wednesday.

The New York TimesDealBook reported that Meeker doesn’t expect a short-term rebound, but she called Facebook a “great” company that “will do very well,” and said of the IPO fiasco:

We’ve never seen anything like it before.

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