Facebook - II - Valuation
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California Gold Rush 2.0: Are Twitter and Facebook Overvalued?
We’ve written often this year about the growth of social media as a whole, but I want to look at the valuations of the 2 biggest social networks. A couple of numbers caught my eye recently…. Facebook ’s valuation rising by about 4% in a week and Twitter raising $200 million last week at a $3.7 billion valuation. There is no doubt that the two kingpins of social media have had stellar years with massive growth but their valuations feel like the start of a bubble to me. I live in Ireland remember and I’ve just seen one of the biggest bubbles of all time with our housing market.Facebook Has The Potential To Be Worth More Than Google
I love Quora . I don’t know what it is about the service, but something makes interesting people give very interesting answers to a huge range of questions. Take Paul Buchheit , for example.
Max Levchin — Google VP of engineering and founder of PayPal and Slide — argues that Facebook will become a serious contender to become one of the more valuable companies in the world if it can “successfully replace core messaging.” At the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, Levchin and Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley answered questions about “game-changing technology.” During their fireside chat, the moderator raised the question of Facebook’s unprecedented growth and its impact.
PayPal Founder: Facebook Could Become the Most Valuable Company in the World
Facebook Raises $500 Million in Funding, Now Worth $50 Billion [REPORT]
Facebook has received a massive new round of funding: $450 million from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, according to a new report. Facebok has raised more than $800 million over five rounds of funding. With this round, the social network will have raised more than $1.3 billion.While everyone has been busy wondering when Facebook was going to IPO, most were looking past the first question: how is Facebook going to IPO? But not TechCrunch alum Evelyn Rusli and Andrew Ross Sorkin. Tonight the pair are reporting that Goldman Sachs has just led a major new investment in the social network. An investment that values it at a nice round $50 billion. And the likely reason is so Goldman can take Facebook public.
$1 Billion Isn’t Cool. You Know What’s Cool? $50 Billion. Goldman And Facebook Agree.
Facebook has officially announced that it has just raised $1.5 billion in funding at a $50 billion valuation, according to a release issued today (we’ve embedded the release below). As stated in the release, the investment was broken into two parts. Goldman Sachs participated in the first round (via an offering to its non-U.S. clients in a fund), which totaled $1 billion.
Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion At $50 Billion Valuation
Facebook has just announced that it has raised $1.5 billion in venture funding from Digital Sky Technologies, Goldman Sachs and clients of the investment bank. With this round, Facebook is officially worth $50 billion. “Our business continues to perform well, and we are pleased to be able to bolster our cash position with this new financing,” Facebook CFO David Ebersman said in its announcement .
Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion, Now Worth $50 Billion
Les fonds que le réseau social de Palo Alto vient d'obtenir proviennent en majorité d'investisseurs étrangers. La façon dont ils seront utilisés n'a pas encore été arrêtée. Il s'agit de la plus importante levée de fonds de l'histoire de Facebook. En fin de semaine dernière, la société fondée par Marc Zuckerberg a annoncé qu'elle avait obtenu 1,5 milliard de dollars, investis dans des actions ordinaires de classe A.
Facebook lève 1,5 Md$ et se valorise à 50 Md$
Facebook Raises $1.5 Billion
If you thought Groupon's $950 million was big, hold on to your hats. Facebook has announced that it has raised $1.5 billion in funding at a $50 billion valuation. According to the release, the company has received $1 billion from Goldman Sachs Overseas Offering today, which, when combined with the previous $500 million , equals the $1.5 billion investment.
Kleiner Perkins adds Facebook to its social lineup
Legendary venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers sat out most of the recent social networking craze, but it’s been catching up quickly over the past year. And the latest addition is Facebook, the social networking crown jewel. Kleiner is buying as much as $38 million in Facebook stock from other shareholders (which usually means employees and early investors) at a $52 billion valuation, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal’s Venture Capital Dispatch . That’s slightly higher than the company’s $50 billion valuation when it raised $1.5 billion from Goldman Sachs, DST, and Goldman clients in January.
Tony Avelar/Bloomberg News The deal could double the personal fortune of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder. 12:42 p.m. | Updated Goldman Sachs has reached out to its wealthy private clients, offering them a chance to invest in Facebook , the hot social networking giant that is considering a possible public offering in 2012, according to people familiar with the matter. On Sunday night, a number of Goldman clients received an email from their Goldman broker, offering them the opportunity to invest in an unnamed “private company that is considering a transaction to raise additional capital.” Another person briefed on the deal said that Goldman clients would have to pony up a minimum of $2 million to invest and would be prohibited from selling their shares until 2013.
Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion Valuation - NYTimes.com
Goldman’s Investment Actually Values Facebook at Much Less Than $50 Billion | Vinicius Vacanti
After several small sales on SecondMarket at a $50 billion valuation, TechCrunch’s MG Siegler stated that “ With this investment, that valuation has just been validated. ” Goldman will get a ton of extra benefits from cementing this relationship with Facebook. Some are even suggesting that fees Goldman will generate from Facebook eventually could pay for the whole investment . If you factor in how much those fees are worth, you’ll can get a sense of what Goldman actually valued Facebook: $1.5 billion special purpose vehicle.Facebook is now worth $50 billion, according to a report in The New York Times that says the company has raised $500 million in new funding from Goldman Sachs and Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies. Goldman invested $450 million, while DST (which has already invested about $500 million into Facebook) provided the remaining $50 million. Goldman also plans to create a “special purpose vehicle” to pool its clients and invest another $1.5 billion in Facebook without triggering the Securities and Exchange Commission’s 500-shareholder threshold, The Times says. (Companies that break the threshold are required to disclose more information publicly.)
Facebook raises new funding at $50B valuation
With more than 120 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's social network continues to grow, kudzu-like. And yet it is worth far less today than the $15 billion it commanded a year ago. Why is that? One could talk about Facebook's fast-growing headcount and farms of servers, spending on which may now have reached hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Or the difficulty it has had at producing what Zuckerberg once predicted would be a once-in-a-century shift in the business of advertising.
Facebook's new value: $1.3 billion?
The value of Mark Zuckerburg's Facebook has dropped from around the cool $15billion mark the company set it at last autumn, down to around $2billion in latest evaluations. Valleywag's Owen Thomas reports that: "Facebook is not publicly traded, but an informal market exists for its stock. "Employees who have vested their stock options and others who have gotten their hand on Facebook shares sell them to wealthy investors and a handful of obscure outfits which specialise in buying private-company shares, like MTVLP and Apercen Partners."