Recruiting Gets Harder at Facebook

This morning, the Wall Street Journal points out a new issue facing Facebook thanks to their new investment by Microsoft: hiring. Any rise in Facebook’s valuation will create a subsequent rise in employee stock options. While that wasn’t a significant problem for Google or Microsoft who’s employees became overnight millionaires after their respective IPOs, Facebook has a huge valuation considering their estimated $150 million yearly revenue.

Any new employees that join Facebook are going to have to truly believe in a future valuation that is comparable with Microsoft and Google.

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