Deal values Facebook at at least 15 Billion Dollars
 

Microsoft is paying $240 million for 1.6 percent of facebook.

And I thought they were nuts for turning down $800 million for the whole thing.

This valuation has to be nuts, right? Has facebook shown any ability to monetize on a scale that could make this valuation conceivable? For comparison, the total market cap of General Motors was less than $15 billion fairly recently.

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I don't understand how the site could possibly be worth that much money. WTF?

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If I owned FB I would be selling as much of it off as possible if I could get anywhere near these #s.

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Facebook is rapidly making its way through Sweden at the moment. Like, really really rapidly. I bet they have pretty big plans for it.

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that's [censored] sick. I'm opening as many accounts as possible immediately.

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Facebook is rapidly making its way through Sweden at the moment. Like, really really rapidly. I bet they have pretty big plans for it.

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it's pretty ridiculous how quickly they take over new regions when they get started.

i added my first friend in finland maybe a month ago. since then i've added basically everyone i know. it went from nobody in the country having heard of facebook to everyone being on facebook in a ridiculously short time.

Re: Deal values Facebook at at least 15 Billion Dollars
 

Also realize that MSFT desperately wanted a piece of Facebook for strategic reasons and that they were in a bidding war with Google. Even if MSFT doesn't think that Facebook as a whole is worth $15bn they were willing to pay up for a 1.6% stake.

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the $15 billion valuation is ridiculous given that the deal also gives Microsoft the exclusive rights to sell advertising on facebook

http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...p;intsrc=kc_top

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$15B sounds just terrible from what I know, which is obviously not near as much as those guys. I mean, no one has even showed FB making an operating profit yet.

Like I mentioned in a thread earlier about a $750M valuation, MySpace only made $10M on $550M revenue. And that's a site with more users and not plagued by the scalability problem facing FB where you can't have more than 5,000 friends.

It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.

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$15B sounds just terrible from what I know, which is obviously not near as much as those guys. I mean, no one has even showed FB making an operating profit yet.

Like I mentioned in a thread earlier about a $750M valuation, MySpace only made $10M on $550M revenue. And that's a site with more users and not plagued by the scalability problem facing FB where you can't have more than 5,000 friends.

It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.

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Why does everyone keep mentioning that? Who the hell has more than 5,000 friends...?