# Prof. Aswath Damodaran's blog post on Facebook's IPO lockup is cited

1 Faculty News May 6, 2014 ![USA Today logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031097.jpg?itok=ln7a_tqf)>

Excerpt from [USA Today](http://americasmarkets.usatoday.com/2014/05/06/can-you-profit-when-ipo-lockups-end/) -- "After all, shares of Facebook, too, struggled following its first two lockup expirations. Shares of the social networking company fell 5% and 3% respectively following the first two lockup expirations, says [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University."
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