Consider Facebook, the popular but financially unproven social network, which is reportedly being valued by investors at up to $15 billion. That is nearly half the value of Yahoo, a company with 38 times the number of employees and, based on estimates of Facebook’s income, 32 times the revenue.
-New York Times (2007)
Facebook即將上市，MG Siegler – Techcrunch Blogger兼CrunchFund創辦人之一，將07年NYT的報導翻出來，恥笑。
或者係NYT記者黑仔，揀了Yahoo!同Facebook比較，以Yahoo!的業績，反證Facebook被高估，試圖說明，泡沬再次於矽谷出現。
相信NYT記者當日無法相像，時至今日，Yahoo!市值已不足190億，至於Facebook，亦將以逾千億市值IPO。
過去幾年，世界變得好快。
重點是，即使到今日，NYT記者的論點 “Facebook is financially unproven”，其實依然成立。
Silicon Valley’s math is getting fuzzy again (parislemon)