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Any guestimates on the acquisition price?

It'll be fun to point back here if we ever find out.

Friendfeed raised $5m... I'd guess on a post-money valuation of $25m. So a $25m exit would basically mean that the investors in the most recent round get a 1 to 1 payout for their investment. Not a big win.

But justifying a $50+mm offer for FriendFeed seems awful hard-- so my guess is $25-$35m.

It does get the FF investors a pile of Facebook stock which is pretty hard to come by (but at what valuation for FB?).

OTOH, Facebook has scads of stock to give away, and at their atmospheric valuations, buying FriendFeed for $100m in pure stock would be like trading 1/65th of Facebook ($6.5B valuation) for it...

My guess is that deal will be somewhere around $25-30mn cash and $40mn stock.

I doubt they used much cash. Facebook is bleeding cash and tossing around that kind of coin for a mostly talent based acquisition doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

70 million? for what?

According to WSJ, roughly $15MM in cash, $32.5MM in Facebook stock, based on the previous $6.5 billion valuation.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124993350820120361.html

$25-50 million

way high, think more like <10mm , plus great signing bonuses for the employees (200k+ ea) ..

200K is peanuts for the ex-googlers in friendfeed.

This subthread is 'guesstimates'. Redorb gave his honest guesstimate. Time will tell if it's right, but in the meantime it's rude to vote this comment down to -4 fade-out (where I saw it) just because you disagree.

The key point being that he wasn't rude or insulting or otherwise antisocial; he was just a bit wrong. That doesn't deserve massive downvoting.

Have terms been disclosed? Until they are, Redorb could be right. At least he described the parameters of his 'guesstimate' and put it on the record next to his name and history of contributions. Anonymous downvoters are just grunting, "no."

What people objected to were the "great signing bonuses". For someone who already has oodles of money (which, being early Google employees, we assume they do), 200K is not that much.

Besides being way off of the estimates of more reputable guessers, his comment provided no justification. Four word comment (essentially) = downvote.

Define 'reputable guesser'.

It was a fair comment in the context of the thread. Predictions should be rewarded or punished based on whether they eventually pan out, not armchair snap-judgment popularity.

The fact that it's different from the pack of similar guesses makes it a more valuable contribution, to me, even if it winds up wrong.

Again, I downvoted because he provided no commentary or justification.

It was just a guess, thanks for bringing the comment back to 1 (even) - I now see that TC has it at 50mm, that is really high in my head... and now twitter has one less exit option.

It did say 15mm was cash. Guess that is still 50% off...

The founder of friendfeed was employee 20-something at Google. His washing machine probably cost 200k.

Just for the record, I was spot on:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-cost-of-friendfeed-...

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