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more about #gideonyu more comments → Accidental Billionaire: 200,000,000 users. Imagine you had every strategic advantage Facebook had, *without* Zuck. A massive infrastructure, users, great name, logo recogniti... more » Accidental Billionaire: How is it not obvious, EMEBER or not, she's still playing on words. Where are the hard numbers? Forecasting profits, in a depression? Motherfuck? All ... more » sample032: Saying you're profitable before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortization is only OK if you plan to stop borrowing money, stop paying taxes, and s... more » yupisaidit: good post owen. re: the capex detracting from an "otherwise profitable" company: it's a valid point but specifically in facebook's case, it's just fuz... more » MrMedia: EBITDA, BEOIEWT, BULLSHIT. Let's talk about net cash flow. That is what pays rent, and salaries. more » Scott Gammans: Accounting talk is so hot. more » HannahMiskolc: talking about "free cash flow profitable" is even worse; facebook has large capital expenditures that would be added back to their earnings to make th... more » skahammer: On the other hand, large one-time capital expenditures are probably smart moves in a startup's growth phase -- even though, yes, they can result in ne... more » Shadowlayer: An exec from some inflated startup lying about her company's actual business perfomance? say it aint so! ¬_¬ more » Accidental Billionaire: Facebook employees need to FB Connect to valleywag and read these important messages. Perhaps when the bubble is done aburstin we can have "Gawker suc... more » iplaudius: Brother looks tired. I can see why he wants some time off. more » Lizawithazee: Which ousted Facebook executive are you? Take the quiz and find out! more » Pope John Peeps II: Where do these photos keep coming from? It looks like all the Facebook senior staff had their pictures taken at a suburban Sears, in front of the "urb... more » Drunken Economist: Aw, cut poor Owen some slack. Valleywag's may be pretty much reduced to Twitter crap I don't care about and Facebook schadenfreude I also don't care a... more » insidefb: This is sad. Does mteam really think that employees and the press are hare-brained? Even a hare-brained employee (and there are many) could identify t... more » -
#financey
Sheryl Sandberg's Magic Facebook Finances
Facebook is already missing its CFO. Sheryl Sandberg, the social network's publicity-hungry COO now tells BusinessWeek that the money-losing social network is "profitable." Not because its revenues exceed its expenses, but because she says so! More » -
#rumormonger
Who's Leaving Facebook Next?
The wheels seem to be coming off at Facebook after the ouster of CFO Gideon Yu. We hear another executive is leaving the social network to spend more time with his family. More » -
#leaks
Mark Zuckerberg's Status Update: Paranoid as Hell
Is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hunting leakers? His internal memo about CFO Gideon Yu's departure got forwarded to bloggers. Perhaps he was hoping that would happen, and not just so his spin would get out. More » -
#facebook
Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
It's time for Facebook to unfriend its 24-year-old college dropout CEO. Mark Zuckerberg had a decent run. But he's the wrong person at the wrong time to lead his social network through its growing pains. More » -
#nerdspotting
Is Former Exec Still Tangled in Facebook's Web?
It's a day of high intrigue at Facebook headquarters, with CFO Gideon Yu leaving abruptly. So why was former COO Owen Van Natta, who left last year, spotted walking out of a Facebook office? More » -
#exits
Cash-Crunched Facebook Loses Its CFO
One by one, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has driven away his cofounders and close confidants. The latest to go: chief financial officer Gideon Yu. More » -
#facebook
Facebook's Cash Crunch
The more users Facebook attracts, the more money it spends — and it's not making it up in volume. That's why Facebook CFO Gideon Yu is reportedly on the hunt for more financing. More » -
#thechart
Facebook's new value: $1.3 billion?
With more than 120 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's social network continues to grow, kudzu-like. And yet it is worth far less today than the $15 billion it commanded a year ago. Why is that? -
