Is Facebook a Google Size Miss?

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The third miss that is not directly related to the international expansion, but I think is more symptomatic perhaps of the sort of taking your eye off the ball. Is they miss facebook? And what so we know sequoia is out for facebook because of shan parker the pajama pitch You know all that the bad blood sequoia can't do facebook Who else could do it? Kleiner was still cleaner at that point right the tummelts hadn't started there Totally you know excel ends up doing and excel is great for urban jim brier doesn’t you know like not to take anything away from them But like absolutely benchmarks should have been and was in the

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