Maybe it would be easier to sell Facebook to Microsoft for billions and billions, even though it is not likely you will.
But, for the sake of argument, let’s take the opposing position about the best future for the hot social-networking site.
In other words, make a friendly Microsoft takeover of Facebook your own version of an IPO, as John Furrier has suggested, and walk away a Silicon Valley legend.
Silicon Valley luminary Marc Andreessen has been asked to join the board of Facebook, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation.
While the arrangement is not completed yet, sources said the longtime entrepreneur has verbally agreed to accept the post to become the fourth member of the board of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social-networking site.
Oh, Max!
I just got through telling someone who asked me that I thought you, Slide founder Max Levchin, was one of the smarter Web 2.0 characters.
Then, of course, you get to be on the cover of Portfolio magazine for its “Brilliant” issue this month. Apparently, Max, you are Silicon Valley’s new “It” Boy.
But for all [...]
If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is serious about finding a true No. 2 to replace outgoing exec Owen Van Natta and more, then BoomTown has certainly at least two cents to add.
So here is our list of ideas, which include a number of women execs, since a list that Facebook has made apparently includes a [...]
Well, I guess this is dating myself, but I remember when this Time magazine cover (see below) of the first Internet-Golden-Boy-of-the-Moment Marc Andreessen came out and essentially heralded the start of the first Web boom.
Specifically, it was Feb. 19, 1996, and the picture of the young entrepreneur–the driving force behind the first commercial browser, the [...]
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