Thursday, March 4, 2010

By the numbers | Sizing up a top advertising rival

[His nickname: "Zuck"]

From today's Wall Street Journal story about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's slow-mo plans to sell shares to the public. The twenty-something owns more than 25% of the giant social media company he started in a Harvard dorm room, the WSJ says. Other numbers:

2
in billions of dollars, possible 2010 revenue

3
board seats Zuckerberg controls

5
number of board members

10
in billions of dollars, Facebook's recent valuation

25
Zuckerberg's age

400
in millions, number of users

1,200
number of employees

2004
year Facebook founded

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