in a cnbc exclusive interview, founder tim draper led skype and microsoft and hot mail acquisitions and the co-founder of identified a social recruiting start-up leveraging facebook's data and backed by mr. draper and google's eric sh mitt. perfect day to have you on. welcome. >> great to be here. >> tim, let me start with you. and then if you would weigh in as well. your reaction to facebook coming public, what it does to the ipo environment in general, and how successful you think this ipo will be. tim, you first. >> well, i think it will be a very successful ipo. i think facebook would have probably rather done an xpo with expert financial and stayed private, but now that they're going public, i think the public will be very receptive. i think it's a great company. i think they're going to have -- it will be very successful today. >> and brendan, would you weigh in? you were the former private equity head at blackstone, investment banker at goldman sachs, it's a big deal for the street certainly, but what about for silicon valley itself in your neck of the woods? >> yeah, i think it