Comments on: Facebook CFO Gideon Yu Out; Fast-Growing Social Network Says It's Doing Fine Financially

By: Facebook Selects New CFO: Former Genentech Exec Ebersman [BoomTown] | UpOff.com

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:04:56 +0000

[...] Facebook said in late March it was looking for a CFO with “public company experience,” and it seems to have gotten one in former Genentech CFO David Ebersman. [...]

By: Facebook Selects New CFO: Former Genentech Exec Ebersman | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:33:51 +0000

[...] the time, Facebook said it needed a public company CFO and it seems to have gotten one in former Genentech CFO David [...]

By: BoomTown Channels Miss Cleo: A Twitter Transaction? More Facebook Follies? And Will There Finally Be a Yahoo-Microsoft Deal? | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:02:05 +0000

[...] Not so impressive is the variety of high-profile management mishaps that have plagued the company of late–from its Terms of Service debacle to its redesign rough road to the way Facebook recently parted with CFO GIdeon Yu. [...]

By: Raise the Yangtanic Again!: Sun/IBM Gets New Tech Metaphor Thrown at It (Also Not So Currie-licious?) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:07:50 +0000

[...] when he agreed to step in to take over as a financial advisor to the social networking site, which abruptly replaced its CFO Gideon Yu last [...]

By: Weekend Update, 4.04.09 | Oliver J. Chiang | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:39:46 +0000

[...] biz-model-less thoughts in his interview on the Colbert Report. Also on BoomTown this week: Facebook’s former CFO Gideon Yu is out, as was a leaked memo from Mark Zuckerberg about Yu’s departure and the company’s [...]

By: Gideon Yu's Departure from Facebook is a Key Signal - Kid Mercury's Blog

Gideon Yu's Departure from Facebook is a Key Signal - Kid Mercury's Blog — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:02:48 +0000

[...] of Facebook. The official reason is that Facebook wanted a CFO with public company experience. Kara Swisher has a nice recap of the situation. What’s this mean? 1. Facebook is lying. Who knows whether the departure of Yu is a good, bad, or [...]

By: Is Facebook in trouble? | Drama Blog

Is Facebook in trouble? | Drama Blog — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:01:51 +0000

[...] fuel was added to the fire when Facebook’s CFO, Gideon Yu, abruptly left the company. Yu negotiated Microsoft’s investment in Facebook at the much-talked-about $15bn valuation. [...]

By: Facebook, continua l’esodo dei “key executive”, tocca al CFO - The New Blog Times

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:01:07 +0000

[...] rapporti con il CEO, Mark Zuckerberg: “In Facebook, o si è con Mark o si è contro”, ha detto ad AllThingsDigital uno degli impiegati. “E se si è contro, si lascia [...]

By: The Entire Facebook Goodbye-Gideon-We-Are-the-Money-Champions Memo | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:25:27 +0000

[...] everyone else, here is the entire memo that Facebook sent out this week to its staff about the departure of CFO Gideon Yu and the financial status of the social networking start-up, which some had been [...]

By: Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links - Apr 2, 2009 « Sazbean

Internet Marketing, Strategy & Technology Links - Apr 2, 2009 « Sazbean — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:07:11 +0000

[...] Facebook CFO Gideon Yu Out; Fast-Growing Social Network Says It’s Doing Fine Financially (All Things Digital) [...]

By: Does Facebook plan to float? : SupaFeed

Does Facebook plan to float? : SupaFeed — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:23:19 +0000

[...] has already seen some turmoil at the top, and his relationship with other executives has been difficult – most people seem to be focusing on another [...]

By: Flypaper.tv » Blog Archive » Hulu, Skype, Google, Teens, Music & April Fools

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:33:56 +0000

[...] the big Facebook advertising experiment working? (VentureBeat): Facebook sacked its chief financial officer , as the company stares down rumors about difficulties getting [...]

By: Facebook CFO Waves Goodbye To Company - News: Everything-e

Facebook CFO Waves Goodbye To Company - News: Everything-e — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:40:42 +0000

[...] the latest episode of “How the Facebook Turns” CFO Gideon Yu has been sent packing. The report at All Things Digital says the move appears to be in preparation of an initial public offering (IPO). There are other [...]

By: Facebook’s Problem is the Management | Technologizer

Facebook’s Problem is the Management | Technologizer — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:32:32 +0000

[...] was not seeing eye to eye with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to our friend and colleague Kara Swisher. That adds up to a lot of internal infighting, and not a need for a CFO with more [...]

By: Contentinople - Steve Donohue - News Bits: Facebook Searches for a New CFO

Contentinople - Steve Donohue - News Bits: Facebook Searches for a New CFO — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:40:12 +0000

[...] reports from the industry say that Yu was pushed out due to problems with other execs. AllThingsD reports that Yu’s departure was related to “an increasingly strained relationship” with 24-year-old [...]