see my other comment. The only case in which he's done with facebook is iff it is after he made a massively inflated bubble company out of it, and it then fails a la myspace and loads of previous "social" properties with similar models and user demographics. I'm not saying it's going to happen, but the risk and precedent is there.
There are two cases. He stays and grows or he leaves in flames. That's why I'd hate to be in his shoes. I mean, to bring it back to my instagram example, I don't personally even know the name of the founders (two I think, from a wikipedia article I looked at). If one of them were replaced by someone else, selling all his equity and the other guy took his place, would anyone care?
but can zuckerberg say, okay I'm done now this guy is going to take over? No, he just can't say that. So, he is like Larry Ellison but without legions of corporate salespeople, and his name is intimately associated with the facebook undertaking.
This would be different if the valuations with his private equity deals were in the millions - but they valued the company at 50 billion. So, really, I would not like to be in his shoes, sorry. (I'd love his cash though).
If I could trade places with either the Instagram founders or Zuckerberg, it would be with the former, is all I'm saying. Your preferences could differ.
There are two cases. He stays and grows or he leaves in flames. That's why I'd hate to be in his shoes. I mean, to bring it back to my instagram example, I don't personally even know the name of the founders (two I think, from a wikipedia article I looked at). If one of them were replaced by someone else, selling all his equity and the other guy took his place, would anyone care?
but can zuckerberg say, okay I'm done now this guy is going to take over? No, he just can't say that. So, he is like Larry Ellison but without legions of corporate salespeople, and his name is intimately associated with the facebook undertaking.
This would be different if the valuations with his private equity deals were in the millions - but they valued the company at 50 billion. So, really, I would not like to be in his shoes, sorry. (I'd love his cash though).
If I could trade places with either the Instagram founders or Zuckerberg, it would be with the former, is all I'm saying. Your preferences could differ.