Comments on: The Entire Facebook Goodbye-Gideon-We-Are-the-Money-Champions Memo

By: Facebook hires former Genentech exec as CFO | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:36:50 +0000

[...] company experience – a hint that it may soon be talking about an IPO. Later, an internal company memo that appeared on the Boomtown blog noted that Yu wanted to spend more time with his [...]

By: Facebook cashing in: IPO looming | THE DREAM IN ACTION

Facebook cashing in: IPO looming | THE DREAM IN ACTION — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:51:09 +0000

[...] just finished reading Kara Swishers post on AllThingsD (from 2 weeks ago) about Zuckerbergs announcement that Gideon Yu’s departure, [...]

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 18:11:12 +0000

[...] conflict between its public statement and an internal memo I obtained on Yu’s departure underscored the [...]

By: Sheryl Sandberg’s Magic Facebook Finances [Financey] « All Hell Hollywood

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:51:43 +0000

[...] what Sandberg’s boss, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said last week: Based on our first quarter results, we now believe we are on track to see our revenue grow by at [...]

By: Entertainment Paradise » Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Crazy Paranoid Streak

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:28:54 +0000

[...] blogger Kara Swisher has noted that she received forwards of several versions of the memo. From one version to another, sentiments were phrased differently (”will report” vs. [...]

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

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:09:15 +0000

[...] 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: Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign | ExclusiveRumors.com

Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign | ExclusiveRumors.com — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:11:54 +0000

[...] resume includes Hilton, Yahoo, and Google.) Realizing the absurdity of that spin, Zuckerberg is now trotting out the line that Yu is “spending more time with his family,” and trying to claim [...]

By: Mark Zuckerberg Turns Investigator

Mark Zuckerberg Turns Investigator — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:12:30 +0000

[...] “Several versions I got of this memo had different punctuation in various places,” Swisher notes in an update. COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL–DO NOT [...]

By: The Entire Facebook Goodbye-Gideon-We-Are-the-Money-Champions Memo [BoomTown] | techclack.com

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:34:33 +0000

[...] Go here to read the rest: The Entire Facebook Goodbye-Gideon-We-Are-the-Money-Champions Memo [BoomTown] [...]

By: Facebook Fallout: Is it time for Zuckerberg to go? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:30:25 +0000

[...] company needed a CFO with public company experience. But, once critics exposed that as a PR spin, an internal memo posted on the Boomtown Blog in which Zuckerberg says Yu wanted to spend more time with his [...]

By: Mark Zuckerberg’s Status Update: Paranoid as Hell [Leaks] « All Hell Hollywood

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:18:18 +0000

[...] her haste to get the scoop, AllThingsD blogger Kara Swisherposted a version of Zuckerberg’s memo which had a repeated paragraph. She’s since eliminated the repeat, but we captured [...]

By: What The Hell Is Going On At Facebook?

What The Hell Is Going On At Facebook? — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:41:26 +0000

[...] the coverage over the past couple days of the Gideon Yu departure and today’s follow-up memo from Mark Zuckerberg which was leaked to Kara Swisher. Yesterday I had begun writing an article about how all of the [...]

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:47:44 +0000

what markie mark said and what it really means:

“Hey everyone, we’ve hit the wall and our revenue ain’t growing. How the heck do you make money off social networking? This guy named Yu did a good job convincing Microsoft to invest at Google-like valuations but now that the ice has melted well…where’s Al Gore when you need him?

Oh, the agony of the meltdown…
We’re looking for a guy who knows how to make money to support our massive valuation and my even larger ego.

I’ve hired Spencer Stuart and Laurel & Hardy to help figure this out, and what does CFO mean anyway?

By: Firing of Facebook’s CFO Gideon Yu - Brutal Work Conditions or Culture? Both « The SiliconANGLE

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:26:02 +0000

[...] was waiting to comment on the release of Gideon Yu from Facebook, but given the new memo Kara Swisher posted I can’t wait any longer. I have information from a source close to the company that the [...]

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:26:30 +0000

Is it possible that there were several versions of the memo as a means to ferret out who your sources are? I know other companies have done that, sending each person a slightly different version and matching with the one that shows up in the publication.

As to bias, to the poster above, I have a feeling that a failure of Facebook would not result in a sudden surge for MySpace (or Orkut or any of the others). At issue is the whole concept of these closed befriending systems. Anyone concerned about privacy considerations on one is not likely to use one of the others either.

Facebook is getting the most coverage simply because it is the most popular. Of course the soap-opera of Facebook the management team may contribute to a lot of the free publicity it gets and may have played a part in its popularity.