Money | Pandora Pandora Jacks IPO to $161.5M Betting on LinkedIn-esque investor frenzy By Polly Davis Doig Posted Jun 11, 2011 7:59 AM CDT Copied Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder of Pandora, arrives to the annual Allen & Co. Media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik) See 1 more photo This is getting to be one pricey box to open: Pandora has jacked the price of its hotly anticipated IPO to $161.5 million, reports the New York Post, up from a slightly more modest $109.5 million last week and $100 million in February. The stock market may be tanking, but the Internet radio company is betting it can still cash in on investor thirst for tech IPOs, a la the frenzy that surrounded LinkedIn last month. Pandora's $161.5 million pricetag would value an offering of 14.7 million shares at $10 to $12 apiece. Read These Next Details are coming out about the suspect in Brown, MIT shootings. Suspect in Brown University shooting is found dead. Final text from NASCAR driver's wife is devastating to read. An early Christmas gift to federal workers, from the president. See 1 more photo Report an error