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Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
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Re: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
#22Any guestimates on the acquisition price?
It'll be fun to point back here if we ever find out.
Re: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
#23My guess is it's a talent acquisition.
It must be. There's not much interesting about Friendfeed that isn't done easier on Facebook.
Re: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
#24My guess is it's a talent acquisition.
General questions about "talent acquisitions" ... when it happens, what's to keep the talent from leaving? Is it generally a scenario where the talent wouldn't sell if they didn't want to stay on board–or are there also clauses in the acquisition that actually prevent them from leaving?
The latter. Always. Usually with extra incentive to ensure that you are productive over the period you are there.
Re: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
#25Nobody has said it, so I guess I'll go ahead -- I don't like to hear this. I use Facebook a lot, but I think Friendfeed is such a great product and that Facebook is such a mature site that nothing good can come of the acquisition. The absolute best case would be that the Friendfeed talent supremely cleans up the code at Facebook to make it a much faster site, but even that would be at the cost of Friendfeed's develop…
I disagree that nothing good can come of it. Friendfeed has mastered real-time whereas Facebook still hasn't. Friendfeed can step in and clean up Facebook's news feed and make it a lot better, which I'm sure they're going to be tasked with doing.
Re: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
#26My guess is it's a talent acquisition.
General questions about "talent acquisitions" ... when it happens, what's to keep the talent from leaving? Is it generally a scenario where the talent wouldn't sell if they didn't want to stay on board–or are there also clauses in the acquisition that actually prevent them from leaving?
One simple way is to make that a condition of the sale.
The second is to defer part of the payment until that condition is met.
The third is 'golden handcuffs' though I doubt that would be very effective with this crowd.
Re: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
#27My guess is it's a talent acquisition.
General questions about "talent acquisitions" ... when it happens, what's to keep the talent from leaving? Is it generally a scenario where the talent wouldn't sell if they didn't want to stay on board–or are there also clauses in the acquisition that actually prevent them from leaving?
Retention bonuses.
Re: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
#28Any guestimates on the acquisition price? It'll be fun to point back here if we ever find out.
$25-50 million
Re: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
#29My guess is it's a talent acquisition.
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Re: Facebook Acquires FriendFeed
#30Perfect. I managed to put off signing up for FriendFeed long enough.