Comments on: Zuckerberg Hires Another VP From Google: Elliot Schrage

By: Facebook Loses Another Exec - Matt Cohler Joins Benchmark

Facebook Loses Another Exec - Matt Cohler Joins Benchmark — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:03:10 +0000

[...] a CEO role at a different startup). Meanwhile, Facebook as been picking up ex-Google execs left and right to fill out additional roles at the [...]

By: Live: Facebook Discusses New Profile Design

Live: Facebook Discusses New Profile Design — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:19:42 +0000

[...] Elliot Schrage has kicked things off by saying today will be more focused on Q&A than the last event, which about Facebook Chat. [...]

By: “Facebook’s Brandee Barker Is Cool” « skrapnel

“Facebook’s Brandee Barker Is Cool” « skrapnel — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:46:06 +0000

[...] the lovely Brandee Barker, Director of Corporate Communications at Facebook. We chatted a bit about her new boss (he was on Brandee’s shortlist of potential bosses), and the differences between in-house and [...]

By: Sachin

Sachin — Thu, 08 May 2008 10:36:13 +0000

Google will not sit idle it will hire from some other biggies.

By: Tom Foremski: IMHO mobile edition

Tom Foremski: IMHO mobile edition — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:41:29 +0000

[...] has been steadily recruiting top Googlers for a while now, such as Sheryl Sandberg COO, and Gideon Yu, CFO. John Battelle over at Searchblog estimates that ten per cent of Facebook used to work at Google. [...]

By: Mighty Sam Faceball

Mighty Sam Faceball — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:25:16 +0000

A Harvard trained lawyer none the less ! !

Is this is supposed to be good news or bad news?

By: Slali Baluma Lada Mabo

Slali Baluma Lada Mabo — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:20:49 +0000

Gee Mark Zuckerbird.

Thanks for going out of your way to tell us employees you are writing from India. As though that makes a frigging bit of difference except to your skinny little ego.

You frigging oddball. Get your goofy little but back in the office or you’re fired.

By: ballzack

ballzack — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:11:50 +0000

@20 ‘Google rules big time’ Rah Rah Rah! You stupid fanboi.

By: Hamsters

Hamsters — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:11:26 +0000

Wow Mike, Elliot (ex-lawyer) has taken your dream job in FB now what are you going to do?

Blogging burnout which you twittered about means you will probably need to sell TC to someone soon but who? You hate all other media companies and they hate you.

By: ballzack

ballzack — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:10:23 +0000

Oh, another awesome scoop from the TechCrunch hacks. Zuckerburg hires some square jawed bizdev lawyer! They’re so great. Nothing but faeries and leprechauns in their future.

Hey I thought any site that doesn’t do search advertising needs to be bought by Microsoft because they can’t survive just on sheer volume of unique users. No? Consistency of logic is what rules at TechCrunch - Yahoo’s plan to make money off massive usage by unique users is trashed by Assington, but everytime Zuckerburg eats a candy bar it’s the smartest move ever.

You rabble of pretentious hype spouting ass clowns.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Zuckerberg、Googleの副社長をまた1人スカウト

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Zuckerberg、Googleの副社長をまた1人スカウト — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:04:14 +0000

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By: The Leopard Dog

The Leopard Dog — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:55:01 +0000

Oh My God! Zuckerberg bought a can of soup! Is Facebook starting a recipe site? Or opening a hardware store? Are they buying Walmart?

Settle down, people…

By: Peter Antypas

Peter Antypas — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:07:48 +0000

@12: Engineers don’t build businesses, they build technologies that MAY actually build businesses. Page and Brin built a search engine. If it were not for the “suits” from Stanford that saw the potential for advertising through search, Google would never had been anything more than a search engine, a back end provider for Yahoo and others (which is how they started).

@19: Apparently (and I’m stumped as much as you are) there seems to be no shortage of fools willing to part with their money for a piece of FB. I think that’s what the Jewish kid is banking on. Should be interesting …

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:15:29 +0000

Facebook seems to be following the same strategy as our own country. “Expand and spend money until the end”.

Where is this whole mess leading facebook anyway? Their product is social services which btw cannot compare with real human interaction. I’d like to see Faceberg bring forth a business model from his baby or should I say Teenager?

Domain Name: FACEBOOK.COM
Creation Date: 29-mar-1997

Overall though I think Google has nothing to worry about since they control the advertising and search market and soon to be cellphone market.

By: Does Facebook hire Google employees out of admiration? | Resourceful Idiot

Does Facebook hire Google employees out of admiration? | Resourceful Idiot — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:08:39 +0000

[...] the announcement of Facebook picking up another Google employee, one has to begin to ask the question if Facebook is selecting these candidates just based on [...]

By: Ha

Ha — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:54:57 +0000

You have to pay to play Silicon Valley. Wonder why you can’t find really good people to fill your ranks? YOU HAVE TO PAY $$$ FOR THEM

Enough of Silicon Valley weak salaries!!

By: Justin Smestad

Justin Smestad — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:14:57 +0000

I agree with john that Facebook needs to minimize payroll and overhead costs. They seem to be grabbing Google employees as some sort of status symbol. This article actually just inspired an article on Resourceful Idiot.

By: bernie lomax

bernie lomax — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:18:10 +0000

GIVE VALLEYWAG SOME CREDIT FOR THIS. YOU GUYS JUST GO RIP OFF CONTENT NOW?

By: robert

robert — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:12:35 +0000

I love his description of the CFR - he clearly needed to look it up and grabbed the first generic definition possible.

By: john

john — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:05:30 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg is doing the right thing in establishing a FaceBook presence in India. Facebook’s payroll numbers must be going through the roof, and until they figure out a way to cut down costs, they are never going to earn a decent enough profit for Wall Street.

By: STARTUP CHATTER » BIG PICTURE » What Google Taught Elliot Schrage, For Facebook

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:12:30 +0000

[...] When Mark Zuckerberg “snagged” Sheryl Sandberg away from Google, I underscored how she is “the perfect Googley fit,“ for Facebook. Now, DITTO for Elliot Schrage. [...]

By: trenety

trenety — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:09:16 +0000

@13

No, he’s happy as hell this guy is going to facebook probably.

By: G

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:04:20 +0000

Techcrunch, can you provide details of why faceberg was in India? We know you have great connections all around the tech world!

Peace.

By: Rodney Rumford

Rodney Rumford — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:16:47 +0000

Smart move by Zuckerberg. Lots of challenges in international PR waters.

Let’s remember that Elliot handled the China Fiasco for Google.

More thoughts on this hire here: http://facereviews.com/2008/05.....ation-exec

By: Anindya Sharma

Anindya Sharma — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:01:26 +0000

Facebook is doing all this just to keep himself away from eaten bu big fishes…..after Yahoo deal fiasco MSFT might try again with facebook to eat it….and get some air in online space. MZ in india…..wait for some news.

-Anindya