Facebook's 119 Billion Reasons to Provide Better Guidance

Facebook's lackluster Q2 performance cost CEO Zuckerberg two spots on the World's Richest list, but it cost investors a lot more - $119 billion dollars to be precise. What's the real story here, and will we ever look at user growth as the key metric for social companies? Plus our Fast Five featuring Twitter's Facebook week, IPO at the Opera, The Fear of Autonomous Cars, and LinkedIn's Voice Gambit. In our Tech Bites segment it's equity analysts who still fixate on user growth rather than revenue, plus our Crystal Ball look at Social Platforms, Transparency, and Trust! This episode features: Daniel Newman (@danielnewmanuv), Olivier Blanchard (@oablanchard), Fred McClimans (@fredmcclimans). If you haven't already, please subscribe to our show on iTunes or SoundCloud. For inquiries or more information on the show you may email the team at [email protected] or follow @FuturumXYZ on Twitter and feel free to direct inquires through that channel as well. To learn more about Future research please visit www.futurumresearch.com As a reminder, the Futurum Tech Podcast is intended as an informational newsletter only. No investment advice is offered. While equities are frequently discussed, no investment advice is offered or implied.