Gmail Creator: Facebook Has The Potential To Be Worth More Than Google

Paul Buchheit, the creator of both GMail and FriendFeed, just made an off-handed remark on Quora:

I believe many people were (and still are) significantly undervaluing Facebook equity. It has the potential to be worth more than Google. It’s already trading over $25B (vs the silly-low $6.5B that people were discussing at the time of the FriendFeed deal) - I think re-doing the math on this deal in a couple of years should be very interesting.

To be honest, I can’t help but agree with him 100%. Facebook as a company has some tremendous assets. Whereas Google tracks your online identity, Facebook is all about tracking your real-life identity. It’s no secret that the two greatly differ. It will be interesting to see how creative Facebook can get while trying to monetize its user base.