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		redorb on Sept 11, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cracks in Facebook I have a hard time reading 'only' and '145mm' in the same sentence, much less right next to each other! - but I guess all things are relative. In this case its relative to the MSFT 15b valuation which of course makes everything look small.

aneesh on Sept 11, 2008 | [–]

It's not a $15B valuation.

Microsoft didn't invest all $240 million for the 1.6% stake. Some fraction of that money was for the advertising deal that Microsoft got.

josefresco on Sept 11, 2008 | [–]

Which begs the question, is it real at all?

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