Can You Get Rich by Investing $1,000 During an Internet IPO?

If you had invested $1,000 in Amazon when the company went public on May 15, 1997, you would be $229,045 richer by now.

But that's over the course of 16 years. Had you invested that same $1,000 in companies like LinkedIn or Facebook during their IPOs, your earnings would be substantially less to date -- $3,972 and $269, respectively -- but each of those companies had IPOs less than three years ago.

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As anticipation builds for Twitter's upcoming IPO, Statista assembled a chart that compares how much an $1,000 investment in six different Internet companies would be worth today.

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