Imagine you had every strategic advantage Facebook had, *without* Zuck. A massive infrastructure, users, great name, logo recognition, ads.

You're likely 50% below profitability, if you include taxes and shit. If you went public, you would be on the pinksheets. VC's are broke and jumping from buildings.

You consult God. He can not save this flawed business model.

These childish notions of creating a gluttonous blob of users and controlling the world through an unnecessary, virtual middleman don't work, and never will.

Venture capitals give naive kids with no biz experience tools and funding to build stuff no one goes to. And even if they do, you don't know how to tax them without them revolting.

Give it up, Zuck. Dismantle this useless site, make your last facebook "PR blogging" to the users of what a great time you have and how you care about Facebook. Swallow your pride chum.

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Where are the hard numbers?

Forecasting profits, in a depression?

Motherfuck?

All in all, this amounts to no sign of profit. In fact, it's a negative, because now we know they have nothing.

She should of said nothing.

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re: the capex detracting from an "otherwise profitable" company: it's a valid point but specifically in facebook's case, it's just fuzzy math. when they start obfuscating finances by including EDIBTA in their talks without the specifications of what their big ticket one time expenditures are or a strong assurance that there *won't be many more,* it's worrisome.

sheryl sandberg took lots of fun out of working at facebook; hopefully she's helping them to operate a leaner operation financially as well.

as an aside, i spend some money on facebook advertising for my company. the numbers are DISMAL. i've been waiting a few months to see what happened before i pulled the plug. think i'll go do that now.

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Let's talk about net cash flow. That is what pays rent, and salaries.

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One more analytical step would make such a difference here: Are Facebook's capex really the difference between positive and negative net income? And are their capex really the type that are likely to pay for themselves via future growth? That would make this post something more than just backtalk aimed at an executive's obvious and essentially trivial promo-speak.

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Dude. Facebook is the bad wife you gotta leave. You want freedom. You need her out of the way. You feel apart of this dumb business because you got worthless tech stock. Please grow up and stop believing these fairy tales. You feel like you're the shit now, but your leader is a numskull.

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Does mteam really think that employees and the press are hare-brained?

Even a hare-brained employee (and there are many) could identify the discrepancy between a) the lie about Gideon's departure to the WSJ insinuating it a firing and b) the internal chum-chum memo saying "I will always be grateful to Gideon for his contributions"?

Creating separate versions of the email to chase down leakers is juvenile. Mtema -- no trust for no employees shows that you can't lead. If you were true leaders, employees wouldn't leak (and leak so many versions).

Also interesting is how Sheryl seems to have steered clear out of this. She and Gideon have never gotten along. But I guess the question is, who *does* get along with Sheryl? It's well-known in her husband's social circles that not even her husband's friends like her.

The management team -- Mark, Sheryl, Elliot, Dan, etc. -- has once again, shown its lack of integrity to the whole world. Congrats on destroying the morale of the company even more, guys.

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