business Overview
HQplaceSan Francisco Bay Area
BusinessSocial networking (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp)
Founded
access_time 19 years ago
(founded Feb 4, 2004)
Company Trajectory Score
Employees
90,000
TrueUp
Rank
#16
Valuation
$549 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#7
all-time high: $996 B (-45%)
1 year ago: $577 B (-5%)
5 years ago: $403 B (+36%)
10 years ago: $66 B (+730%)
Public / PrivatePublic ($META)
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Meta (Facebook) is a social networking (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) company with 317 job openings. It is currently valued at $549 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
317open jobs
TrueUp
Rank
#73
local_atm Financials
Valuation
$549 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#7
52 wk high: $614 B (-11%)
1 year ago: $577 B (-5%)
5 years ago: $403 B (+36%)
10 years ago: $66 B (+730%)
Revenue
trailing 12 months
$118 billion
TrueUp
Rank
#9
Revenue growth
vs. same quarter
last year
-4.5%
TrueUp
Rank
#394
MULTIPLES
Valuation / Revenue4.7x
Valuation per employee$6.1 million
TrueUp
Rank
#333
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
menu_book Popular books and movies
sentiment_dissatisfiednot available
code Open Source
Open source citizenship
sentiment_very_satisfiedsentiment_very_satisfied Outstanding
TrueUp
Rank
#14
Top open source projects
β˜… 205.0kfacebook / react
β˜… 108.7kfacebook / react-native
β˜… 99.3kfacebook / create-react-app
β˜… 64.7kpytorch / pytorch
β˜… 41.7kfacebook / jest
β˜… 32.5kfacebook / immutable-js
β˜… 25.6kfacebookresearch / Detectron
β˜… 24.8kfacebook / folly
β˜… 24.9kfacebook / rocksdb
β˜… 22.0kfacebook / flow
β˜… 20.2kosquery / osquery
β˜… 19.4kgraphql / graphql-js
β˜… 17.7kfacebook / relay
β˜… 17.6kfacebook / hhvm
β˜… 15.7kfacebook / prophet
β˜… 14.6kprestodb / presto
β˜… 7.9kapache / cassandra
β˜… 3.1kfacebookincubator / AITemplate
insert_chart_outlined Rankings
#6 BrandZ Most Valuable Brands
#2 LinkedIn Top Companies
#44 Fortune Most Admired Companies
#144 Fortune Global 500
#10 Forbes Most Innovative
'Poor' corporate reputation rating
- Axios Harris Poll
rule Policies
% of open jobs that are remote
41%
home_work Remote work policy
Remote work is common
Same pay everywhere?
(same work, same pay)
sentiment_very_dissatisfiedNo
public H1B sponsorships approved in 2021
163
TrueUp
Rank
#16
card_giftcard Benefits (US)
Total value of benefits
(annual estimate)
$3,500 (sentiment_dissatisfied OK)
TrueUp
Rank
#12
401k match
50% match
401k match limit
7% of salary
If you make...
Your max 401k match is...
$50k base salary$1,750
$100k base salary$3,500
$150k base salary$5,250
$200k base salary$7,000
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Paid vacation
(1st year)
21 days
child_friendly Maternity leave
17 weeks
child_friendly Paternity leave
17 weeks
Other employee benefits
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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