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 From: Sam Lessin Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 6:50 PM To: Mark Zuckerberg Subject: Re: notes on platform

Back at you inline...

On 10/27/12 1:57 PM, "Mark Zuckerberg"

>More thoughts inline... > >From: Sam Lessin >Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 9:14 AM To: Mark Zuckerberg >Subject: Re: notes on platform > >Thanks for reading it through and the response. > >I agree with your framing of the three questions embedded in my >proposal 2 >Regarding your notes on #1 >--I do agree that 10% to 20% of a small number of businesses doesn't get us thereš just as a platform with thousands of developers who pay us nothing doesn't get us there. That is why I basically land on a model >where some APls are widely available at scale (and we get thousands of >developers at scale) but there are a set of APls that really are just for >partners. Also known as, I think we need to have it both ways >>>Yeah, I think having two programs is pretty reasonable. The question >>to me is just what's in each program and what we get from it. My >>interpretation of your proposal is that we get the vast majority of the >>>value from the companies we partner with, but I have a hard time >>imagining we actually have these kinds of deep partnerships with >>hundreds of companies, so there's a disconnect for me there. I also >>interpret your proposal as if we won't make very much money at all from >>non-partner companies, and I think there needs to be and likely is a >>>bigger opportunity for us there >>In my model, we'll define rev shares for as many industries as we can >>think of. There will always be some companies that don't fit whatever >>models we have or we want to give them deeper access in exchange for CONFIDENTIAL FB-01389021