SM: How do you charge? What’s the model for companies to work with you? WO: Our products … basically, you can license one product, or you can license all 12. For some of our products, it’s $200 a month, and some of them are in the $2,000 range. We work with those customers usually on
SM: Interesting. I’d like to ask you some mechanical questions now. Can you talk a bit about Google’s policy for search engine ranking, and how does it take into account these kinds of social media mentions and activities and links and so forth? WO: Ah, you’re going to get me there because I don’t know
SM: Interesting, very interesting. Now, what is it in your background that gives you the understanding of natural language processing and all this stuff? WO: Ha,ha. Nothing. It was something, like I said, from my background, it was when I started the company – and even before I started the company – it was just
Most people don’t care much about where the dash lighting, door lighting and seat belt sensors in their cars are manufactured. They only care that these things work properly. When people cross the street every day, they don’t worry about how the crosswalk signals were made. Again, they only care that these things work properly.
Sramana Mitra: Right now you’re talking to thousands of entrepreneurs. You have the ears of thousands of entrepreneurs. Many of them are working on cloud startups and social startups, things that are very much in your ecosystem. What guidance can you provide for them in terms of what you are looking for? Where do you
Sramana Mitra: That would be great for the Facebook API. Facebook right now [has] three billion [dollars in advertising revenue] or something? Rob Jewell: Yes. I think they’re probably four billion. SM: Four billion. So, how much of that is going through this kind of optimization? How much is going direct? RJ: I don’t have
Sramana Mitra: A customer or lead? Rob Jewell: A lead, someone who has signed up for Living Social’s daily deals newsletter. SM: So, Living Social decided to go with your media buying team and technology over its own media buying team and technology to buy on Facebook. Would you talk in a more specific way
By guest author Daniel Burrus Facebook’s IPO may well be the biggest and most hyped IPO ever … and for good reason. Many people would like to have bought Google or Apple when they first went public, but they didn’t. Now they’re kicking themselves for it. Unfortunately, you can’t go back and undo the past.