Why risk your own money when people are lining up to risk theirs?

It's a bond sale. They get preferential treatment in case of insolvency.

	▲	ceejayoz 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but they aren't insolvent until (at the very least) they spend that $43B on hand. I don't forsee it happening to Facebook anytime soon, but companies going to $0 isn't unprecedented.