James Siminoff

I am currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Unsubscribe.com the former CSO of Ditech Networks Nasdaq (DITC) the founder and former CEO of PhoneTag, founder/principal in NobelBiz and founder of GRID.com. This blog is about my life as a serial entrepreneur, husband, traveler, inventor and father.

jsiminoff@PhoneTag.com

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Interview by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch of Zuckerburg and Facebook’s new Russian investor. The best comment I saw about the video was from Howard Lindzon, “Yuri looks like a mobster and Zuckerberg looks bored with life.”

I believe strongly that the public markets are very hungry for companies like Facebook (see Opentables recent very successful IPO) so this might not be a bad move from the Russians even at a very rich $10 billion valuation.

If this becomes a home-run investment for the Russians there is going to be a lot of funds located within walking distance (TCV for example) that are going to have a some explaining to do to their partners in how they let this one slide out of their hands…

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