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		<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7145" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="kevin ryan" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/kevin-ryan1.jpg?w=214&h=300" alt="" width="214" height="300" />Kevin Ryan was behind New York's biggest tech exit, DoubleClick, which sold to Google for billions. So he has a little more gravitas than most when talking big zeros, declaring today that Facebook will one day be valued at $1,000,000,000.<!--more--></p>
<p>"I think there are literally thousands of companies who get a tremendous amount of value from Facebook and are not paying for it. I have confidence that at some point Facebook will force all of them, including my own companies, to start paying for that," <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-will-be-a-1-trillion-company-2011-5">Ryan said during an interview </a>at the Silicon Alley Insider 2011 conference.</p>
<p>"Everything they have done is consistent with what people want to do on the platform, they are not building electric cars," said Ryan, in a quick jab at Google. "They are adding tremendous value. It's like Google back in 2001, when businesses were secretly saying, I am spending ten cents to get a customer I make ten dollars on. Well fast forward ten years later and you are paying $10 for that customer."</p>
<p>As for the current climate, Ryan says he decided to raise more money than he need with Gilt Groupe, which recently grabbed $138 million in funding, because the conditions are so good. "There is zero chance that there is a bubble, and anyone who says that is crazy. Is there a chance that companies could be overvalued by 25%, a bubble is when companies are ten times what they should be."</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7145" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="kevin ryan" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/kevin-ryan1.jpg?w=214&h=300" alt="" width="214" height="300" />Kevin Ryan was behind New York's biggest tech exit, DoubleClick, which sold to Google for billions. So he has a little more gravitas than most when talking big zeros, declaring today that Facebook will one day be valued at $1,000,000,000.<!--more--></p>
<p>"I think there are literally thousands of companies who get a tremendous amount of value from Facebook and are not paying for it. I have confidence that at some point Facebook will force all of them, including my own companies, to start paying for that," <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-will-be-a-1-trillion-company-2011-5">Ryan said during an interview </a>at the Silicon Alley Insider 2011 conference.</p>
<p>"Everything they have done is consistent with what people want to do on the platform, they are not building electric cars," said Ryan, in a quick jab at Google. "They are adding tremendous value. It's like Google back in 2001, when businesses were secretly saying, I am spending ten cents to get a customer I make ten dollars on. Well fast forward ten years later and you are paying $10 for that customer."</p>
<p>As for the current climate, Ryan says he decided to raise more money than he need with Gilt Groupe, which recently grabbed $138 million in funding, because the conditions are so good. "There is zero chance that there is a bubble, and anyone who says that is crazy. Is there a chance that companies could be overvalued by 25%, a bubble is when companies are ten times what they should be."</p>
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