Marc Andreessen has been a Facebook investor from very early on. Andreesson, who has been given to launching some epic tweet storms once in a while, has today been digging through the archives and republishing various media outlets’ negative tweets about Facebook over the years.
Facebook, of course, has emerged from its days of racking up billions of members to become a very profitable public company. So one can forgive early believers like Andreessen for taking a few of victory laps, even if those laps are just short trots to the bank and back.
Enjoy:
2007: “Irrational exuberance … Facebook is being valued by investors at nearly half the value of Yahoo … bubble.” http://t.co/w7siOTOK1y
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) July 26, 2014
2008: “Social networking will become a ubiquitous feature of online life. That does not mean it is a business.” http://t.co/fgh18TgfU1
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) July 26, 2014
2009: “The prospect of a Facebook death spiral is very real.” http://t.co/PBHXd6Ik0t
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) July 26, 2014
2009: “One can argue that Facebook is probably worth far less than the aforementioned $3.7 billion.” http://t.co/LeOMxm1iVW
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) July 26, 2014
2009: “Famously overvalued Internet start-up businesses: $15B value for Facebook, $2.6B valuation for Skype…” http://t.co/Te2qpl0PpS
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) July 26, 2014
2010: “Facebook’s $56 Billion Valuation Smells Like A Scam To This Guy” http://t.co/OpgirFr2zs
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) July 26, 2014
2011: “Facebook’s stock price will drop more steeply than any other company’s in history.” http://t.co/n6pqNST8Sb
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) July 26, 2014
2011: “Social networking is a bubble in the sense that e-mail was a bubble.” http://t.co/zfWKf95QWr
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) July 26, 2014
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