// startup autopsy

FriendFeed

A real-time feed aggregator that consolidated social media updates, blog posts, and RSS feeds from multiple platforms.

platform dependencyacquisition_distress

Fatal mistake: FriendFeed aggregated all social media into one feed (Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, blogs). Genuinely innovative real-time social aggregation. Facebook acquired for $47M August 2009. Facebook used FriendFeed's real-time feed technology to build News Feed. FriendFeed officially shut April 9, 2015. The founding team (Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, et al.) became key Facebook/Google product leaders.

Founded	2007
Closed	2015
Country	USA
Sector	Social

50%

Key Events Timeline

2007

FOUNDING

2009

FUNDING

2015

SHUTDOWN

Full Analysis

Analyst plan

Documented cause

FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook in 2009 for $47.5 million total and subsequently shut down on April 10, 2015 after Facebook decided to discontinue the service despite maintaining it for several years post-a...

cquisition.

Verified lesson

“...”

Unlock full lesson →

€12.5M

Peak valuation

HypeCycle · MoatType · ResearchTags

FriendFeed raised €5M before friendfeed aggregated all social media into one feed (twitter, flickr, youtube, blogs). genuinely innovative real-time social aggregation. facebook acquired for $47m august 2009. facebook used friendfeed's real-time feed technology to build news feed. friendfeed officially shut april 9, 2015. the founding team (paul buchheit, bret taylor, et al.) became key facebook/google product leaders. ended it. See the documented cause, verified lesson and all failure signals.

Unlock full analysis →Create free account

See all plans·Analyst plan — €149/mo