This the Relational Map for the combined network of Friendster and the Individual Investor Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is one of the investors in Friendster, so by making him into a second Target Node it is as if the network has been expanded. The Friendster Relational Map would include the node for Peter Thiel, but as a Target Node, Peter Thiel's entire network is now included and combined with that of Friendster.

By expanding Peter Thiel's investment network we can see that he has a focus in the social networking field, with investments into Facebook and LinkedIn - other very well known social networking sites. Without expanding Peter Thiel's node, you could not have seen the pathways between Friendster and these other social networking sites.

You can also see that Friendster has connections to many high profile people, companies, and investors, including Ram Shriram and Google, Intuit, eBay, Juniper Networks, Palm, Kleiner Perkins, Benchmark Capital, Reid Hoffman, and more. This may help to explain why Friendster was able to whether the MySpace storm and begin to reorganize itself for a continued play at the social networking market space.