Facebook Archives | Wealthfront Blog Personal Finance & Investing Insights Fri, 24 Feb 2023 20:56:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-wave-logo-transparent-hi-res-500x500.png Facebook Archives | Wealthfront Blog 32 32 Data is the New Frontier https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/data-new-frontier/ Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:12:49 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=8381 In August 2011 Marc Andreessen wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed that famously explained why, “software is eating the world.” As we explained in Demystifying VC Economics, Part 5, industry after industry is being disrupted by new entrants that implement much of the incumbents’ value in the form of a software-based service that can be […]

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]]> WhatsApp: What an Acquisition Means for Employees https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/whatsapp-acquisition-employees/ Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:34:12 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=4324 The announcement that Facebook is buying WhatsApp for $19 billion generated a lot of interest. The most popular question we received is what does the acquisition mean for the employees financially. IPOs tend to get all the headlines, but in many cases technology companies are acquired. This post will walk through the economics of an […]

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]]> Manage Vested RSUs Like A Cash Bonus & Consider Selling https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/manage-vested-rsus/ Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:08:20 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=3487 Editor’s note: Interested in learning more about equity compensation, the best time to exercise options, and the right company stock selling strategies? Read our Guide to Equity & IPOs If your company gave you a year-end bonus of $100,000, would you use all of it to buy your company’s stock? Hell, no. Yet, scores of […]

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]]> The IPO Millionaire Machine https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/silicon-valley-millionaire-economy-impact/ Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:17:22 +0000 http://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=3090 Editor’s note: Interested in learning more about equity compensation, the best time to exercise options, and the right company stock selling strategies? Read our Guide to Equity & IPOs The New York Times Bits blog writer Quentin Hardy recently interviewed Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachleff on the question of how many people – regular people, not executives […]

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]]> Wall Street Invades Silicon Valley https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/silicon-valley-wealth-management/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:21:00 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=1794 Brokers around the country have woken up to the wealth being created by Silicon Valley IPOs and are busy plotting to get a share of it. One trade publication for brokers and financial advisors published a kind of “cheat sheet” on big Valley companies, which ends with the suggestion that brokers should become less like […]

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]]> 2012 IPOs: High Expectations, No Assurances https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/upcoming-2012-tech-ipos/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:26:40 +0000 https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/?p=1733 By tradition, no IPOs are scheduled in the first two weeks of January, so this week marks the kickoff of the IPO year. Given the fact that technology is one of the few truly bright spots in the U.S. economy, and the expectation that Facebook will file, the expectations are extraordinarily high for 2012. Here’s […]

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]]> Should You Hold On To Groupon Stock? What About Zynga? https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/hold-groupon-stock-qs-ipo/ Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:44:42 +0000 /blog/?p=1548 The dust has settled a week after Groupon’s IPO last Friday. Here’s a quick Q&A on the offering. How much did Groupon raise? $700 million. It was the largest IPO by a U.S. Internet company since Google Inc. raised $1.7 billion in 2004, according to Reuters. Groupon is now trading on the NASDAQ under the […]

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]]> Why Watching Media Reports On The Market Is A Waste Of Time https://www.wealthfront.com/blog/friday-reads-watching-media-reports-market-waste-time/ Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:16:24 +0000 /blog/?p=1403 Americans concerned about their portfolios (everybody) woke up to more bad news Thursday, as headlines about a global selloff permeated the media. If you believe, as we do, that it’s important to invest for the long term, rebalance in a disciplined way, and limit your emotionally driven moves to the level of tweaking (if you […]

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