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Is talent really worth $15 M? Seems a little expensive for a couple of programmers.
by charlesju 17y ago
Is talent really worth $15 M? Seems a little expensive for a couple of programmers.
- rokhayakebe 17y ago12 programmers, 1 million + users. Now unlike Twitter, friendfeed is not made of a bunch of marketers following other marketers. If you follow someone on Tiwtter you get something like "Thanks for the follow. I am expecting to learn from you. Check my website...". Also The discussion around a particular shared item on FF is easier to follow.
- jimboyoungblood 17y agoThe number of users FF has that FB didn't already have is approximately zero.
- ciscoriordan 17y agoShould make integrating the userbases pretty easy then.
- blader 17y ago... or pretty irrelevant.
- jimboyoungblood 17y agoI think FB got a great deal here. They got ~10 top grade Google vets. Assuming they each have to stick around for 3 years, $15MM/(10*3) = $500K/year each. And the $35MM in stock = 0.54% of Facebook. Divide that by 10, and you get 0.05% per head, which doesn't seem extravagant at all. It's the FF employees who are bearing most of the risk in this transaction, in the off chance FB isn't actually worth $6.5B.
- blader 17y agoIt depends on how you leverage 10 top notch engineers. I'm guessing they wouldn't have done the transaction if they figure they couldn't get at least $50M in value from these guys which at Facebook's scale isn't that hard.