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Facebook in Financial Trouble

2 April 2009 / Alec Kinnear / 2 Comments

Surprise, surprise. It’s not just Twitter hurting for cash.

Gideon Yu CFO
Gideon Yu, Facebook CFO

Facebook has just shed its CFO, Gideon Yu – the same guy who negotiated the deal for YouTube. That’s somebody I’d like on my team. (Hey, Gideon, we need a CFO at Foliovision.) Apparently Mark Zuckerberg who is the last cofounder of Facebook still standing wasn’t seeing eye to eye with Yu about potential monetization plans.

Zuckerberg is rumored to want an IPO. Normal mortals would settle for being acquire, In the meantime, the company is bleeding red ink.

Just the kind of place I would like to store all the contact information of my family and friends: at a business who is desperately in need of a $100 million.

Not only is Facebook desperately in need of cash, but they are an onshore American company. Under all the various Bush decrees, any information stored anywhere in America is accessible by American intelligence and security agencies with the rubber stamp of a secret tribunal. Normally when intelligence agencies get close to data, they don’t take what they need, they take all they can get.
In general, Facebook is not somewhere I would be comfortable keeping a full database of all my contacts and all of their contacts, along with exact information about the nature of our relationships. See our page on the dangers of Facebook.

Alec Kinnear

Alec Kinnear

Alec has been helping businesses succeed online since 2000. Alec is an SEM expert with a background in advertising, as a former Head of Television for Grey Moscow and Senior Television Producer for Bates, Saatchi and Saatchi Russia.

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  1. Las Vegas SEO 14 April 2009 at 9:23 am

    I guess potentially the government administration could actually take facebook over in a bailout attempt. The wouldn’t need the “Bush decrees” if Geitner (spelling) gets his way he’ll just walk in a take control of the company. Which admin do you think is more dangerous?

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  2. How to Hack Facebook 8 August 2010 at 2:59 pm

    It seems crazy that a business of that size with hugh revenue potential is having that kind of problem.

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