business Overview
HQplaceSan Francisco Bay Area
BusinessSocial networking (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp)
Founded
access_time 19 years ago
(founded Feb 4, 2004)
TrueUp
Trajectory Score
Employees
90,000
TrueUp
Rank
#16
Valuation
$678 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#6
all-time high: $985 B (-31%)
1 year ago: $496 B (+37%)
5 years ago: $491 B (+38%)
10 years ago: $62 B (+987%)
Public / PrivatePublic ($META)
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Meta (Facebook) is a Social networking (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) company with 504 job openings. It is currently valued at $678 billion as a public company. 90,000 people work at Meta (Facebook). The company was founded in 2004.

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work_outline Job Openings
504open jobs
TrueUp
Rank
#36
local_atm Financials
Valuation
$678 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#6
52 wk high: $688 B (-1%)
1 year ago: $496 B (+37%)
5 years ago: $491 B (+38%)
10 years ago: $62 B (+987%)
Revenue
trailing 12 months
$118 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#9
Revenue growth
vs. same quarter
last year
-4.5%
TrueUp
Rank
#394
MULTIPLES
Valuation / Revenue5.7x
Valuation per employee$7.5 million
TrueUp
Rank
#264
Revenue per employee$1.3 million
phonelink Products
Top products
- Facebook app
- Instagram (acq in 2012 for $1B)
- WhatsApp (acq in 2014 for $19B)
- Messenger
Other important products
- Oculus (acq in 2014 for $2.3B)
- Workplace
- Portal
- Novi
Primary customer type
emoji_people B2C+business B2B
Is this really a tech company?
Definitely
remove Network effects
check Zero marginal costs to produce
check Product improves over time
check Zero cost to expand globally
check Self-serve onboarding + Zero cost of sales
emoji_people Culture
Glassdoor employee reviews
78%
would recommend Meta (Facebook) to a friend (13,779Β reviews)
better than 54% of tech co's
65%
approve of the CEO Mark Zuckerberg (2,808Β reviews)
worse than 83% of tech co's
Company mission"Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together."
Company principles
- Give People a Voice
- Build Connection and Community
- Serve Everyone
- Keep People Safe and Protect Privacy
- Promote Economic Opportunity
Company culture links
Facebook Lifenorth_east
facebook.com/careers/facebook-life
Companies founded by former employees
- Asana (founded 2008)
- Cloudera (founded 2008)
- Quora (founded 2009)
- Quip (founded 2012)
public Climate change efforts
Carbon-neutral target: 2030
code Open Source
Open source citizenship
sentiment_very_satisfiedsentiment_very_satisfied Outstanding
TrueUp
Rank
#15
Top open source projects
β˜… 207.6kfacebook / react
β˜… 109.6kfacebook / react-native
β˜… 99.8kfacebook / create-react-app
β˜… 66.9kpytorch / pytorch
β˜… 42.0kfacebook / jest
β˜… 32.6kfacebook / immutable-js
β˜… 25.8kfacebookresearch / Detectron
β˜… 25.1kfacebook / folly
β˜… 25.2kfacebook / rocksdb
β˜… 22.0kfacebook / flow
β˜… 20.3kosquery / osquery
β˜… 19.5kgraphql / graphql-js
β˜… 17.8kfacebook / relay
β˜… 17.7kfacebook / hhvm
β˜… 15.9kfacebook / prophet
β˜… 14.7kprestodb / presto
β˜… 8.0kapache / cassandra
β˜… 3.2kfacebookincubator / AITemplate
β˜… 21.7kfacebookresearch / llama
rule Policies
% of open jobs that are remote
67%
home_work Remote work policy
Fully remote work is sometimes an option
public H1B sponsorships approved in 2022
163
TrueUp
Rank
#16
menu_book Popular books and movies
sentiment_dissatisfiednot available
history Other info
Associated billionaires
(source:Forbes)
$42.2B - Mark Zuckerberg
$6.2B - Dustin Moskovitz
$6.8B - Eduardo Saverin
$13.3B - Jan Koum
$7.3B - Yuri Milner
$2.1B - Jeff Rothschild
$2.1B - Jim Breyer
$2.4B - Brian Acton
$4.2B - Peter Thiel
$1.5B - Sheryl Sandberg
$1.2B - Kevin Systrom
IPO dateMay 18, 2012
(11 years ago)
Top owners at IPO
28.2% - Mark Zuckerberg
11.4% - Accel Partners
7.6% - Dustin Moskovitz
5.4% - DST Global Limited
2.5% - Peter Thiel
Founder ownership at IPO35.8%
Implied founder equity split
79% - Mark Zuckerberg
21% - Dustin Moskovitz
Unsuccessful products trending_down
- Facebook Home
- Facebook Poke
- Facebook Slingshot
- Facebook Phone
- Facebook Places
- Facebook Deals
- Facebook Questions
- Facebook FBML
- Parse
- Facebook Beacon
- Facebook Bonfire
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