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Fortune iMeme: Facebook Will Make Over $100 Million Revenues This Year; Media Company Or Not?

By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jul 2007 10:00 AM PST

That was from Jim Breyer, from Accel Partners, the main investment firm invested into Facebook, speaking at Fortune iMeme conference, covered here by Eric. He was asked about whether Facebook would be sold: “The company will do well over $100 million in revenue, and profitable, and significant EBITDA positive this year. Right now our job is to build out the company as significantly as possible. In our case, sold best companies too early...sold Perabit to various networking companies, a series of our networking companies that today would have been possible IPO candidates.” Also about not selling while the hype is at its peak: “There are huge disadvantages right now around the hype; companies best built when under the radar; and everything isn’t visible.”

Later, in response to Mark Zuckerberg’s comments yesterday about whether Facebook is a media company (he think it is not), some comments on a media panel today: Chris DeWolfe, founder, MySpace: Facebook is a media company: any time you are competing for eyeballs, and you are getting people’s attention, it is a media company. It is a different and unique way of consuming media. Most kids don’t even know which network their favorite show is on...now it is about getting and consuming media where you want it.

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