Gideon Yu

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  Published on: 3/31/2009    Last Visited: 3/31/2009  

  Facebook CFO Gideon Yu is out
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  Facebook chief financial officer Gideon Yu is leaving the company, representatives from the social network confirmed Tuesday.
  
  "Facebook confirms that CFO Gideon Yu will be leaving the company," a statement from Facebook read. "Gideon has played an important role in helping us achieve our financial success, building a strong finance team and establishing the core financial operations of our company. We are grateful to Gideon for his contributions to Facebook and what we are trying to accomplish."
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  Yu, a former Google employee who was brought on board there when it acquired YouTube, had been hired fewer than two years ago, and the Journal reported that Facebook is currently hunting for a replacement who has experience running a public company. Prior to YouTube, Yu had been employed as "treasurer" at Yahoo. He also has side projects, joining the team of high-profile investors--including the new Google Ventures--in e-commerce start-up Pixazza.
  
  Yu was one of the first in a string of prominent Googlers to join Facebook's upper ranks as it rose to the top of Silicon Valley's pecking order.
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  With Yu at the helm of its finances, rumors had swirled for months that it was looking to raise additional venture capital funding to fuel its exponential growth. The company will likely hit 200 million members worldwide within days, a mass that requires costly hardware and personnel around the globe. Persistent reports hinted that not only was Yu attempting to drum up interest in more funding, but that he was having a tough time doing so.
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  Facebook CFO Gideon Yu is out

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  Published on: 8/13/2009    Last Visited: 8/13/2009  

  According to the Reutersreport on Tuesday Facebook, the most popular social networking Website that has around 200 millionusers, announced that Gideon Yu, the company's chief financial officer since August 2007, intends to leave the company. Thus an Internetsocial media company is seeking for a candidate with "public company experience."
  
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  Published on: 4/1/2009    Last Visited: 4/2/2009  

  Facebook CFO Gideon Yu leaving company
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  Facebook CFO Gideon Yu leaving company
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  Facebook CFO Gideon Yu leaving company
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  NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook's finance chief, Gideon Yu, is leaving the fast-growing social-networking site as the company looks for a replacement with "public company experience."
  
  It's the latest sign that the site may be looking to go public in the not-so-distant future, though the company has said it has no immediate plans for an initial public offering.
  
  Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook said Tuesday that Yu, 37, has played an important role in establishing the company's core financial operations. He became Facebook's CFO in July 2007 after stints with Yahoo Inc., Google Inc.'s YouTube and a venture-capital firm. At YouTube, Yu helped negotiate the site's sale to Google in a deal valued at $1.76 billion when it closed in 2006.

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  Published on: 2/12/2009    Last Visited: 2/12/2009  

  Video company YouTube is poaching Yahoo employees — YouTube has just hired Yahoo Treasurer Gideon Yu to join the startup as its first chief financial officer, according to the WSJ.

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  Published on: 3/6/2008    Last Visited: 3/7/2008  

  Last year, Facebook hired former YouTube Chief Financial Officer Gideon Yu from Google to fill the same position.

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  Published on: 6/30/2009    Last Visited: 6/30/2009  

  Ebersman replaces Gideon Yu, CFO since April 2007.

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  Published on: 11/5/2007    Last Visited: 2/22/2009  

  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining "All Star Cast" of Early Investors Vobile - Powering the Internet Video Economy
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  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors
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  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining All Star Cast of Early Investors
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  SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Nov. 5, 2007 -- Vobile, a leading provider of video content identification and management services, today announced that Gideon Yu, chief financial officer of Facebook, has joined Vobile's Board of Directors. Yu most recently was CFO of YouTube, where he negotiated its $1.65 billion sale to Google. He previously served as treasurer and senior vice president of finance for Yahoo. "After having been intimately involved with the evolution of online video while at YouTube, Google and Yahoo, it is clear that Vobile's VideoDNA technology is a revolutionary step forward for the industry and is the best video content identification solution available," said Yu. "Additionally, VideoDNA can provide a much needed foundation for monetization of online video for content owners and significantly enhance the online video search experience, which currently leaves much to be desired." Gideon Yu joins other prominent private investors in Vobile, including Vernon Altman, Senior Partner of Bain & Company; Jarl Mohn, former CEO of Liberty Digital and former Executive VP and General Manager of MTV and VH1; Nicholas Moore, retired Global Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers and a director of Wells Fargo & Company; Brian Mulligan, former Chairman of Fox Television and former Co-Chair of Universal Pictures; and David Wargo, an influential investor in the media and communications industry, also a director of Discovery Holding Company and a director of Liberty Global.
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  "Gideon is a powerful and welcome addition to the Vobile team," said Vernon Altman, Chairman of the Board.
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  "I am very excited to have Gideon join our board.
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  We look forward to working with Gideon closely as a team to build Vobile into one of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley."

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  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining All Star Cast of Early Investors
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  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining All Star Cast of Early Investors
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  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining All Star Cast of Early Investors
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  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining 'All Star Cast' of Early Investors
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  SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 5 -- Vobile, a leading provider of video content identification and management services, today announced that Gideon Yu, chief financial officer of Facebook, has joined Vobile's Board of Directors.Yu most recently was CFO of YouTube, where he negotiated its $1.65 billion sale to Google.He previously served as treasurer and senior vice president of finance for Yahoo.
  
  "After having been intimately involved with the evolution of online video while at YouTube, Google and Yahoo, it is clear that Vobile's VideoDNA technology is a revolutionary step forward for the industry and is the best video content identification solution available," said Yu."Additionally, VideoDNA can provide a much needed foundation for monetization of online video for content owners and significantly enhance the online video search experience, which currently leaves much to be desired."
  
  Gideon Yu joins other prominent private investors in Vobile, including Vernon Altman, Senior Partner of Bain & Company; Jarl Mohn, former CEO of Liberty Digital and former Executive VP and General Manager of MTV and VH1; Nicholas Moore, retired Global Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers and a director of Wells Fargo & Company; Brian Mulligan, former Chairman of Fox Television and former Co-Chair of Universal Pictures; and David Wargo, an influential investor in the media and communications industry, also a director of Discovery Holding Company and a director of Liberty Global.
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  "Gideon is a powerful and welcome addition to the Vobile team," said Vernon Altman, Chairman of the Board.
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  "I am very excited to have Gideon join our board," said Yangbin Wang, founder and CEO of Vobile.
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  We look forward to working with Gideon closely as a team to build Vobile into one of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley."
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  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining All Star Cast of Early Investors
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  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining 'All Star ...

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  Published on: 11/5/2007    Last Visited: 11/5/2007  

  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining 'All Star Cast' of Early InvestorsVobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining 'All Star Cast' of Early Investors
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  Vobile Adds Facebook CFO Gideon Yu to its Board of Directors Joining 'All Star Cast' of Early Investors
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  that Gideon Yu, chief financial officer of Facebook, has joined Vobile's Board of Directors.Yu most recently was CFO of YouTube, where he negotiated its $1.65 billion sale to Google.He previously served as treasurer and senior vice president of finance for Yahoo. "After having been intimately involved with the evolution of online video while at YouTube, Google and Yahoo, it is clear that Vobile's VideoDNA technology is a revolutionary step forward for the industry and is the best video content identification solution available," said Yu. "Additionally, VideoDNA can provide a much needed foundation for monetization of online video for content owners and significantly enhance the online video search experience, which currently leaves much to be desired." Gideon Yu joins other prominent private investors in Vobile, including
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  "Gideon is a powerful and welcome addition to the Vobile team," said
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  "I am very excited to have Gideon join our board," said Yangbin Wang,
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  Gideon closely as a team to build Vobile into one of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley."

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  Published on: 2/11/2008    Last Visited: 6/20/2008  

  We previously wrote about the Silicon Valley company here, when Facebook chief financial officer Gideon Yu invested.
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  Gideon Yu, Facebook's chief financial officer, has joined the board of directors of Vobile Inc., a startup that automatically identifies copyrighted video content on online video sites, the Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required).
  
  Vobile offers a service called VideoDNA that monitors, tracks and manages online video content, so companies can automatically pull down copyright-violating videos instead of paying people to manually find and remove the offending videos.The company can also identify the contents of a video - information that can be used to serve contextually relevant online ads (a capability not unlike the YouTube-Adsense service Google announced today).
  
  Audible Magic is another company YouTube is using to help it help filter content, but it tracks music within videos only, not video imagery itself, and has been less than perfect.
  
  Yu knows a thing or two about the problems surrounding copyright violations in online video.He left his job as treasurer at Yahoo last year to work briefly at YouTube: He was the guy who brokered the deal to sell YouTube to Google last year.
  
  After leaving YouTube earlier this year, Yu got hired at red-hot Facebook this summer instead of joining venture firm Sequoia Capital as he'd previously planned. [Update: To be clear, Yu is both chief financial officer at Facebook and on the board of Vobile.]
  
  Since the sale, Google has kept promising better copyright detection measures - in the face a billion-dollar lawsuit from Viacom for copyright violations.In July, for example, the company said it would launch a system in September.
  
  Obviously, this is the sort of technology that YouTube needs to implement, and now Yu is getting an inside view of it.Perhaps he'll be brokering the sale of another company to Google pretty soon here?

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