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SharesPost currently values LinkedIn at $2.51 billion, but LinkedIn has 97.1 million shares — and at $30 a share, the valuation jumps to $2.91 billion.
SharesPost has contacted LinkedIn shareholders to express interest for the shares in a private auction, in which a minimum of 95,500 shares would be sold, Bloomberg's sources claim. The results will be announced to the participants on January 28.
Services such as SharesPost or SecondMarket let investors trade with illiquid assets, including private company stock, which means the stock prices there don't hold as much importance as stock prices of public companies such as Google.