'If you're in a position to lose a chunk of money and want to speculate on Facebook, go ahead:' Grim warnings against 'gold rush' of Facebook IPO
But don't use money that you really need to save to do it ... equivalent to 25 times revenue and 102 times earnings. Google - to which Facebook is most often measured against in terms of potential - was valued at $23 billion at the time of its 2004 ...