Comments on: Jim Breyer: Extra $500 Million Round For Facebook A “Total Fiction”

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By: » Blog Archive » Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again.

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:20:40 +0000

[...] When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many people as it needed to and not worry about profitability or going public until at least 2009, as board member Jim Breyer said in 2007. [...]

By: Yks blog » Blog Archive » Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:00:34 +0000

[...] When Facebook raised 0 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another 5 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many people as it needed to and not worry about profitability or going public until at least 2009, as board member Jim Breyer said in 2007. [...]

By: Facebook’s Growing Problem

Facebook’s Growing Problem — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:05:56 +0000

By: How much is Facebook worth? - There be Nonsense Here

How much is Facebook worth? - There be Nonsense Here — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:25:48 +0000

[...] he wants to go public in 2009, he is going to have to start making some money before then. Tags: facebook, facebook+worth Share [...]

By: Jared Booye.com

Jared Booye.com — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:54:08 +0000

[...] he wants to go public in 2009, he is going to have to start making some money before [...]

By: Petri Pokka

Petri Pokka — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:49:03 +0000

Fiction or not, Facebook is next big thing. We can’t see how well it will develop in future, but now it is domination social networks just like MySpace did only a little while ago.

By: Yishan

Yishan — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:45:42 +0000

Which Russell Simmons is this? The hip-hop mogul or the Yelp CTO?

By: HA

HA — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:02:40 +0000

Man I fell asleep on American Gangster… what happens at the end?

By: Rodger

Rodger — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:38:41 +0000

AHHH I knew I knew a little about hip hop, it is that dude http://www.russellsimmons.com/ he came out with what sounds like a really cool book. He has some really cool organization that deals with social issues. Huge respect to the man. But for the site GB well that seems like an amazing site in other ways that I have yet to discover.

By: Rodger

Rodger — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:35:32 +0000

Who is Russel Simmons? the name sounds like the dude from deff jams Let me google the dudes name later.

I took a peak at global grind, no disrespect but it look like… well I rather not say. Either way to get US$4.5 mil for that is more like charity donation from Jim in my book. I cannot believe what I saw. Simply Amazing stuff.

By: Your Daddy

Your Daddy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:07:17 +0000

I think he actually said, “peace out marks” as he walked out and into his Escalade rollin’ on Dubs.

By: Adam Sharp’s Blog » Facebook’s Valuation is NOT $15 Billion

Adam Sharp’s Blog » Facebook’s Valuation is NOT $15 Billion — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:43:01 +0000

[...] What about those Hedge Funds who supposedly invested in Facebook at the same valuation as Microsoft? Well, that story is “total fiction” according to a member of Facebook’s board and investor in Facebook – story at Techcrunch. [...]

By: OpenSocial: The Online Social Networks PR War « OpenSocialSphere

OpenSocial: The Online Social Networks PR War « OpenSocialSphere — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:47:42 +0000

[...] Jim Breyer: Extra $500 Million Round For Facebook A “Total Fiction” I asked Breyer point blank about the second ghost tranche. And he told us point blank:”Those reports last week were a total fiction.” [...]

By: Jack Doe

Jack Doe — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:22:56 +0000

“The evening wound down, and Russell Simmons, another investor in the Global Grind who was also there, said, “I’m going home to watch my bootleg copy of American Gangster.” Kafka and I were not invited to come along.”

That is b/c Simmons is about 10 million times cooler and more relevant than any tech heads

By: Your Daddy

Your Daddy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:14:26 +0000

A few comments:

1) Breyer either had some drinks in him or had ben smokin’ some Sherm with Simmons to open up his trap as much as he did about FB.

2) If FB wait till 2009 to IPO, the window on this Social game will be closed, no IPO.

3) Simmons is going to send some hard pipe hittin knukkles after you for being a snitch and reporting every little thing about what you talk about with other people.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:10:25 +0000

http://www.crun...ompany/facebook

CrunchBase shows a 240M investment from MySQL? in Oct 07? That is the MSFT investment?

By: Grip

Grip — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:27:24 +0000

@13

Where did I ever say I “struggled” to learn FBML? You are delirious.

By: Berlin

Berlin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:25:42 +0000

@ 2

I guess you’ve never heard of Apple

By: Facebook open to OpenSocial, VC says - - mathewingram.com/work

Facebook open to OpenSocial, VC says - - mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:58:38 +0000

[...] Kafka at Silicon Alley Insider and Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch are reporting that Facebook board member and investor Jim Breyer said at an event last night that [...]

By: steveballme

steveballme — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:58:34 +0000

Roling the dice with your money….

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: John Wooton

John Wooton — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:54:21 +0000

A very interesting read.

I think even if they were to support the OpenSocial api, they’ll still probably keep fbml (for a while). They’ll just use OpenSocial as a new source of app submissions and hosting.

Eventually, one will come out on top, though

By: nick halstead

nick halstead — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:42:45 +0000

It won’t be long before Facebook joins OpenSocial, if they don’t then gaining that extra $500m is not going to happen, they are still to prove the revenue model and part of this is why they have not yet release more details about their own ad network, because as soon as it fails the $15b valuation goes down the toilet, they have to get that extra $500m before then.

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By: Dheeraj Sultanian

Dheeraj Sultanian — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:26:00 +0000

This whole social space seems like complete vaporware and PR spin. Firstly, no company has made social-targeting ads work, but all assumptions are that it does (with little or no data to back that up). It is possible that instead of providing relevant ads, the big brother feeling will actually lead to a mass exodus of people away from open social platforms.

Secondly, the only reason my good friend Jim would categorically deny an additional round of funding is to deny a “cashing out” mentality and valuation top for Facebook. Why would they raise so much money in a hurry if the equity was going to increase rather than decrease?

Targeting ads to active search and passively to content – goldmine, Targeting ads passively not to content but specific users – just plain creepy

By: BeerCo Software Blog

BeerCo Software Blog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:23:05 +0000

The Rumors of the extra 500M investment in Facebook were false…

Confirmed by Techcrunch, the extra 500M investment in online social networking website Facebook have now reported to be fake. While this is no surprise to a large majority of us, it does make Microsoft Corp look that much crazier for investing 250M in …