Sunday, January 15, 2012

Facebook IPO

Facebook IPO will occur probably between april and may 2012. This will be the biggest IPO in tech/internet industry (10 billion dollars) : 6 times more than Google in 2004 (1.67 billion).
Only 3 other US companies had 10billion+ IPOs : AT&T 10.6 billion (2000), General Motors 18,1 billion (2008) and Visa 19,7 billion (2010).

The social network will be valued at 100 billion dollars. This is bigger than Disney (61 billion), Amazon (88 billion) or McDonald’s (95 billion)

IPO social network

Who are Facebook Shareholders ?

-Mark Zuckerberg, founder : 24%
-Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder : 6%
-Eduardo Saverin, co-founder : 5%
-Sean Parker, Napster founder : 4%
-Peter Thiel, Paypal founder : 3%

Facebook Revenues :


Estimated at 4.2 billion for 2011. If you think that’s a huge number…, Apple makes that amount in only 3 weeks..

Facebook will also have 28% of the ads seen online and 17.7% of online ad display revenue.


Source: Facebook Infographic

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