Facebook: The long road to an IPO

Finally! The Facebook IPO is here. Speculation about when Mark Zuckerberg would take Facebook public has been a favorite pastime of investors for years, and now those investors are scrambling for their share of one of the hottest IPOs in history. The offering price of $38 per share translates to a company valuation of $104 billion. All the more remarkable when you consider that only about eight years ago, Facebook was just an idea kicking around in a Harvard dorm room.

For a primer on the evolution of the Zuckerberg phenomenon, here are two 60 Minutes stories on Facebook from 2010 (Part One and Part Two) and from his first interview in 2008:

Also listen to Zuckerberg's comments to 60 Minutes about a Facebook IPO before he made his landmark decision: