Andreessen said in a podcast that to go public in today&#x27;s market, you really have to build up the company as &quot;a fortress&quot;, i.e. be prepared for several quarters of negative market reaction, and that he worked extensively with Zuckerburg before Facebook&#x27;s IPO to do this.  It&#x27;s logical that if he had inside information about Facebook&#x27;s financials, their strategy, upcoming moves, and monetization experiments, he could set a much more accurate price target than Wall Street.<p>Interestingly, you could probably turn this into a trading strategy by looking for other newly-IPO&#x27;d companies that Andreessen is a board member on, waiting for them to inevitably sink after IPO, and then buying in.