{"id":1004,"date":"2007-10-25T00:18:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T22:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/facebook-and-microsoft.html"},"modified":"2007-10-25T00:18:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T22:18:51","slug":"facebook-and-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June when I visited Facebook and concluded that Facebook was going to be worth over <a href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/internet-technology\/facebook-will-be-worth-over-10bn.html\">$10bn<\/a> many friends told me I was crazy.\u00a0 The funny thing is that when I told this to Owen, Chris Kelly and other Facebook top managers they also laughed and told me I was out of it.\u00a0 I guess after the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/10\/24\/facebook-and-microsoft-bff-for-240-million\/\">Microsoft $240M investmen<\/a>t\u00a0 I wasn\u00b4t so out of it.\u00a0 And I am not surprised that it was Microsoft who paid that &#8220;crazy&#8221; amount of money as my friends at Google have seen the social network fashions come and go and would have not paid that valuation.\u00a0 Having said this Facebook plus $240M = serious damage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1004\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June when I visited Facebook and concluded that Facebook was going to be worth over $10bn many friends told me I was crazy.\u00a0 The funny thing is that when I told this to Owen, Chris Kelly and other Facebook top managers they also laughed and told me I was out of it.\u00a0 I guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}