Friendster Person-Investor Map

This is the Person-Investor Map for Friendster. This is a good example of how the combination of Person and Investor nodes can lend structure to a network. If all of the Person nodes or all of the Investor nodes were removed, the clusters would disappear into strings of connections. John Doerr and Kleiner Perkins are at the center of the cluster, and John Doerr works for Kleiner Perkins (learned by clicking on his node and reading the background information in the Information Window), so their relationship is not surprising.

This is also a good example of an individual who is represented by a Person node and an Investor node in the same map. Tim Koogle, at the top of the map, has a yellow Investor node that shows his capital investments as an individual as well as a pink Person node which shows his company affiliations as a Board and/or Management Team Member.