Do you ever wonder just how much exactly you are worth to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook? What is the value that you bring to the table for the social networking conglomerate. According to new research, each user last year equated to a value of just under $10 each. Considering there are 900 million users on Facebook, that’s not too shabby.
A few days after the Facebook IPO, which made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire, Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg gave a speech to the 2012 graduating class of Harvard Business School. Incidentally, Sandberg became a billionaire as well. During her speech, in a half-whimsical way she uttered these words: “Keep in touch via Facebook; this is critical to your future success. And since we’re public now, could you click on an ad or two while you’re there?” Yeah.
After the Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg instantly became a billionaire many times over. Although, the FB stock isn’t doing as well as most would have liked. It started out with an IPO price of $38 a share, which made Zuck worth $19.14 billion. At the opening public price, it went up to $42 but has since bottomed out a bit, down as low as $30.94 and at $31.65 as of this writing.
After an amazing setup yesterday for the Facebook IPO and a $104 billion company valuation, and this morning with Mark Zuckerberg ringing the NASDAQ bell from Menlo Park California (pictured inset), the Facebook stock (FB) has officially began trading on the open market.
As expected, Facebook completed it’s Initial Public Offering today raising a staggering $16 billion, bringing the total valuation of the uber social network to $104 billion, which makes it one of the biggest IPO’s filed ever.
Facebook’s highly talked about and now famous IPO is going to happen at any moment now. At a valuation at $100 billion and counting, it will be one of the biggest IPO’s to date, three times larger than Starbucks. Is it all that it’s cracked up to be though? Warren Buffet doesn’t think that it is. MBA Online did an infographic on the IPO numbers and included some interesting facts worth checking out.
Facebook just passed a momentous turning point in the number of active users it has. For a while, they were in the 800-850 million user threshold, but in an amendment to their S-1 IPO filing, they say they now have 901 million active users.
After all the details of the Facebook IPO yesterday, one thing has been made certain. The cash flow coming out of the IPO is going to make many people millionaires and billionaires. Let’s not forget where this all started though. Yes, Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, we know. But without us, you and I, the users, Facebook would not exist. Therefore, speaking for everyone, I am Facebook. Don’t forget that, Zuck.
Earlier Facebook officially filed for their Initial Public Offering (IPO). In the filing statement, there is a lot of good details and interesting information I have come across so far. At a high level, I touched base on some factoids when I found out about the IPO, but after that I decided to dig deep into this very long and brutally detailed filing.
As reported last week, Facebook has just made it official by filing for their Initial Public Offering. The IPO filed just a few minutes ago is for $5 billion. The actual valuation of Facebook at this point is still not known, as the value of the shares haven’t been published yet.
In a new report from the Wall Street Journal published a short time ago, they are saying that Facebook may finally file for their Initial Public Offering (IPO). Currently Facebook is a privately held company, and if they go public their stocks can be traded publicly and they can build on their capital dramatically.
Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) is currently estimated to have a value of $100 billion. Facebook may go public sometime in 2012. Since Mark Zuckerberg owns 24% of Facebook, some easy math makes him out to have an estimated worth of $24 billion! That’s a lot of money. Explain It Studios stacks up Zuckerberg’s billions and puts things into perspective with this handy infographic.
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