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Let's not kid ourselves. Any morning we will wake up to the headline "Quora acquired by Facebook."
by zaidf 16y ago
Let's not kid ourselves. Any morning we will wake up to the headline "Quora acquired by Facebook."
- dotcoma 16y agowhat for ?
- scorpion032 16y agoThis. Zuck speaks about Adam and Quora highly; no reason it wouldn't translate into an acquisition. With a $50B evaluation Zuck can very well afford back his old friends into the fold.
- jyan 16y agoIt makes sense, until you realize that Facebook does "Talent acquisitions" basically, i.e. with drop.io, friendster, etc. He thinks highly of Adam for sure, but Adam also left Facebook to found Quora. I don't think Adam would want to be bought back by Facebook and actually stay there for any significant period of time. Plus, there's Facebook Questions... (Of course, the quality of the questions/answers is certainly debatable)
- zaidf 16y agoI don't think Adam would want to be bought back by Facebook and actually stay there for any significant period of time. For the right amount of money, he could stay for 3 years, the avg post-acquisition lock-in period. It'd be a win-win for all: the next three years are super critical for fb and if they can lock-in a guy like Adam, it'll be well worth the acquisition.
- codexon 16y agoI don't think this will happen. Adam left because he was marginalized by Zuck and replaced by Bret Taylor as CTO. Since then, Facebook has come out with Facebook Questions.
- zaidf 16y agoAdam will return because it will be financially rewarding. Notice even when he left, he only did so after he had fully vested. He'll get a new vesting clock with the acquisition and all will be good.
- codexon 16y agoIf Zuck thought Adam was valuable, he would have given him an incentive to stay instead of replacing his position with a newcomer and putting him in a position where he would likely leave the company.
- zaidf 16y agohe would have given him an incentive to stay Clearly we don't know if he did. But what we do know is that guys like Adam, Paul Buchteit etc. just want to go do their own thing after a while. And we also know the tendency of founders to sell their co back to their original employer or a close competitor.
- codexon 16y agoClearly we don't know if he did. It obviously wasn't enough if there were any. And don't you think it is convenient that Zuckerberg "got rid of" the CTO position when Adam left (when he complains about his position not fitting his stature)...and then a couple months later they have another CTO again?
- codinghorror 16y agoFacebook Questions is permanently in beta though -- http://facebook.com/questions http://facebook.com/questions has said "rolling out in the next few weeks" for the last 4 months.