Welcome to the Jungle (Redux)

Yesterday I was in the event organized by Facebook in Madrid, The Madrid Facebook Developer Garage. The event was organized by FON, the Wifi company owned by Martin Varsavsky. I think Mr. Varsavsky is doing a great job trying to give visibility of the European and specially Spanish companies in Silicon Valley. The event took place in Teatro Lara, a old-fashioned theater in the heart of Madrid. A nice place, nothing to do with a garage.
Just like the content of the event: nothing to do with a developers garage. It was more like an introduction to Facebook. They sold the announcement of Facebook in spanish like an event for developers. Crap. Not a single word about how to develop applications. It was clearly an event focused on entrepreneurs and companies, not on developers. If I read 'garage' and 'developer', it sounds to me like something closer to the bare metal, right? But it wasn't.
A waste of time. I hope Facebook will learn from this mistake and will make things better next time.

Today Microsoft has acquired 1.6% of Facebook, paying 240 million dollars. So the smart guys from Redmon (and their strategic consultants, of course) think Facebook has a value of 15 billion dollars! That's a lot of money for a company with 300 employees! But it's not about the employees talent, it's about the 50 million active users of the platform where the value is. And it's really high, around 300 bucks per active user.
Now I think to myself... can they really get 300 dollars from the average user?
It smells like dotcom boom reborn...