{"id":1998,"date":"2009-08-11T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=1998"},"modified":"2009-08-11T09:05:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T07:05:14","slug":"the-cost-of-friendfeed-roughly-50-million-in-cash-and-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/11\/the-cost-of-friendfeed-roughly-50-million-in-cash-and-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost Of FriendFeed: Roughly $50 Million In Cash And Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\">Everyone is obviously talking about the<a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: #009f00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/08\/10\/facebook-acquires-friendfeed\/\">Facebook\/FriendFeed deal<\/a>, but everyone wants to know one key detail: How much did Facebook pay? Now we know: Facebook paid nearly $50 million when you add the $15 million it paid in cash with roughly $32.5 million (based on current valuations) in stock,\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: #009f00;\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124993350820120361.html\">according to the Wall Street Journal<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" style=\"float: none; position: static; max-width: 2000px; max-height: 2000px; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; left: auto; top: auto; line-height: normal; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v6.3\/theme\/silver\/palette.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 14px; height: 12px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: top; display: inline; visibility: visible; background-position: -1128px 0px; margin: 0px !important; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v6.3\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 19px; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px;\">The stock is the key part of this deal. Its value is derived from the $6.5 billion common valuation after\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: #009f00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/07\/13\/dst-to-buy-up-to-100-million-in-facebook-employee-stock\/\">a recent purchase of employee stock by the Russian investment group DST<\/a>. But what\u2019s really interesting about the stock is that these are options that vest over a set period of time (\u201dseveral years,\u201d says WSJ), just as employees in the company get. Compared to the\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: #009f00;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/09\/25\/parakey-did-investors-get-left-out-in-the-cold\/\">Parakey deal<\/a> in July 2007, in which the company got only cash and no stock, this seems like a pretty nice deal (assuming that Facebook\u2019s stock eventually pans out, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is obviously talking about theFacebook\/FriendFeed deal, but everyone wants to know one key detail: How much did Facebook pay? Now we know: Facebook paid nearly $50 million when you add the $15 million it paid in cash with roughly $32.5 million (based on current valuations) in stock,\u00a0according to the Wall Street Journal. The stock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}