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Since Facebook's valuation is now a nice round $15 billion, Zuckerberg's 20% stake is worth $3 billion. Of course, it's not like he will be converting that to

Since Facebook's valuation is now a nice round $15 billion, Zuckerberg's 20% stake is worth $3 billion. Of course, it's not like he will be converting that to cold hard cash anytime soon, but everyone on that list would have to be worth at least $120m to equal that. I'm sure the Olsen Twins are, but the Harry Potter stars definitely aren't. Then again, this was about income, not net worth or capital gains. Pretty sure Warren Buffet wouldn't make this list (since he doesn't pay himself much) even if he was young enough.

nickb 19y ago
> Since Facebook's valuation is now a nice round $15 billion After Beacon fiasco, do you still think that? That $15B is based on a relatively small MS investment (which is basically a pre-payment for their advertising deal) and FB is still not making any real money. For them to have a $15B valuation, they should have at least $1B in revenues (to justify 15x valuation) as a private company. Based on their financing strategy, they don't make anywhere close to that.
- Xichekolas 19y ago
  I never said I personally thought it was worth anywhere near that. Of course the valuation of a private company is completely speculative... and of course the Microsoft investment was just a stunt to produce a really high number. I was just saying to the person that commented about no startup founder making the list that if we counted paper-make-believe-valley-money... there wouldn't be anyone on there BUT founders. What is Facebook going to do, start charging users? become the next MySpace? If they have accomplished anything, it is making the net cast off the idea of anonymity. Now you can't even have a drink with your friends without your Mom/Boss/Professors seeing it online. A sad world really.
zaidf 19y ago
Facebook is still cheap at 15B. Here's the catch: that doesn't mean someone should buy it at 15B. The acquirer will likely end up disrupting the path facebook's on right now. Just imagine if yahoo bought google back in the day - I doubt google would be what it is today.

nickb 19y ago

> Since Facebook's valuation is now a nice round $15 billion After Beacon fiasco, do you still think that? That $15B is based on a relatively small MS investment (which is basically a pre-payment for their advertising deal) and FB is still not making any real money. For them to have a $15B valuation, they should have at least $1B in revenues (to justify 15x valuation) as a private company. Based on their financing strategy, they don't make anywhere close to that.

Xichekolas 19y ago
I never said I personally thought it was worth anywhere near that. Of course the valuation of a private company is completely speculative... and of course the Microsoft investment was just a stunt to produce a really high number. I was just saying to the person that commented about no startup founder making the list that if we counted paper-make-believe-valley-money... there wouldn't be anyone on there BUT founders. What is Facebook going to do, start charging users? become the next MySpace? If they have accomplished anything, it is making the net cast off the idea of anonymity. Now you can't even have a drink with your friends without your Mom/Boss/Professors seeing it online. A sad world really.

zaidf 19y ago

Facebook is still cheap at 15B. Here's the catch: that doesn't mean someone should buy it at 15B. The acquirer will likely end up disrupting the path facebook's on right now. Just imagine if yahoo bought google back in the day - I doubt google would be what it is today.