Facebook Inc FB shares have been on a roll over the last month, up nearly 20 percent. So, is earnings expectations driving this move or there is something else spurring the numbers upward?
Jason Calacanis, founder and CEO of Inside.com, was on CNBC Tuesday to discuss.
Doing Mobile Better Than Anyone Else
"Facebook is the best-run company in Silicon Valley right now," Calacanis began. "And they are the most focused on the now.
"So, if you look at Google, they are very focused on self-driving cars and putting balloons in the sky to get us Internet— really moonshot type stuff. What Facebook has done extraordinar[ily] is their acquisitions in mobile and really steering the ship away from the desktop, where they were complete experts, and then going to mobile and just running the table on everybody."
Snatching Takeover Targets From Google
He continued, "If you look at WhatsApp, Instagram – their group's products – I think they are all destined to be billion dollar franchises. And we have never seen a company like this have 4 or 5 billion user products.
Calacanis explained further, "And so, it's extremely well executed, and their M&A team is phenomenal. I mean, to get WhatsApp and to get Instagram out from Google, it really showed Google was asleep at the wheel in terms of acquisitions for a little while there."
Building The Best Ad Network
"And all of this mobile advertising, people were really questioning if it would actually come to fruition. What Facebook did extremely well and it's got Sheryl Sandberg's fingerprint all over it, is really built an ad network that one ups Google's," Calacanis concluded.
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