Report: Facebook revenue pegged over $500M - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Andreessen's comments reportedly came during aninterview "Idf they pushed the throttle forward on monetizatioh they would be doing more than a billionb this year," the news serviced quoted said Andreessen as saying. Palo Alto-based Facebook doesn't disclose revenue numbers but has said it expectzs 70 percent growththis year. Both Andreessenb and Horowitz reportedly said during the interview that they believe it is OK for companies like Faceboo kand micro-blogging service Twitter to concentratse on growing their user base and improvin their product rather then push revenue growth earlhy on.
An example of a company that was hurt by concentratinvg too early on revenueis MySpace, the pair told the news service. "Idf the revenue degraded the user experience then that was a very dangerous thingfto do," Horowitz reportedly said. Andreessen and Horowitz workerd together atand , two companies that were sold for a combinede $11.7 billion.