Last year, Gideon Yu, the former chief financial officer of Google's YouTube, became Facebook's chief financial officer.

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Last year, Facebook poached the Internet giant's video site chief financial officer, Gideon Yu, to be its chief financial officer.

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Less than two years later, Gideon Yu left the company.

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Gideon Yu was previously the chief financial officer (CFO) at YouTube who left shortly after Google acquired it in 2006 and has moved to Facebook to become its CFO.

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Jed York, the 49ers CEO, has hired several executives from Silicon Valley tech companies for key front-office positions, including former Facebook Inc. executive Gideon Yu, who is now the team's president and a part owner.

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Because Gideon Yu was no longer there.

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