Comments on: Slip-Sliding Into a Fortune

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Sat, 14 May 2011 08:47:53 +0000

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By: There’s No Biz Like No Biz at Twitter! (And Will Google Swoop In Before It All Comes Crashing Down?) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:49:18 +0000

[...] valuation of Facebook “insane” when Microsoft forked over $240 million in 2007 and gave Slide’s Max Levchin a very hard time when his widget company got a $550 million valuation a year ago, it’s only fair that I say something equally appropriate about [...]

By: David Mullings

David Mullings — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:16:59 +0000

Why is it that people like to only focus on PART of the MSFT/FB deal and ALWAYS leave out the fact that Microsoft paid $240 million for the rights to serve ads on FB outside of the US (it already controls the US banner ad placement on FB)?

They ALSO got a 5% stake in FB as part of that deal. When combined with the purchase of an Ad network, the deal makes complete sense – MSFT now gets to serve ads on one of the most popular and fastest growing sites on the web, plus an ownership stake.

It wasn’t just $240 million for a piece of Facebook.

By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:11:36 +0000

Kevin:

Well, I have not given them free pass, for sure.

That said, $240 million for Microsoft is essentially chump change.

We’ll see if it is the chump or not.

By: Kevin Horne

Kevin Horne — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:40:18 +0000

I’m still not getting why Microsoft/Ballmer are getting a free pass on this crazy valuation thing. If I were a MSFT investor I’d want to know how my $240 mil was going to be returned, and when. I wouldn’t give a hoot about Zuckerberg and $15 billion.

Yet not a peep from Redmond.

http://lairigmarketing.blogspot.com

By: Strategy: Attempting to understand Slide's $550M USD valuation | blog WSN: adventure on the Chinese Internet

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:03:57 +0000

[...] the coverage I have been able to find, Levchin is pitching the adoption of SNS services as a paradigm shift as [...]

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Adonomics Blog » Blog Archive » Congrats to Max and Look Out Mark — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:53:30 +0000

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By: Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:47:52 +0000

Steven:

Indeed.

By: Steven Yevoli

Steven Yevoli — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:17:44 +0000

Amazing but cant be too surpised. This is all part of the “Facebook Effect” where more and more VC’s are going to hitch a ride to companies developing apps for Facebook in the hopes of riding the valuation wave.
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