Facebook

Facebook, Inc.

Logo since 2019

Type Public

Traded as  Nasdaq: FB (Class A)
 Nasdaq-100 component
 S&P 100 component
 S&P 500 component

Industry  Social media

 Advertising

Founded February 4, 2004; 17 years

ago in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Founders  Mark Zuckerberg

 Eduardo Saverin
 Andrew McCollum
 Dustin Moskovitz
 Chris Hughes

Headquarters Menlo Park, California

, 
U.S.

Area served Worldwide (except blocked countries)

Key people  Mark Zuckerberg (CEO)

 Sheryl Sandberg (COO)
 David Wehner (CFO)
 Mike Schroepfer (CTO)
 Chris Cox (CPO)

Brands  Facebook
 Instagram
 Messenger
 WhatsApp
 Oculus VR

 US$85.97 billion (2020)
Revenue

Operating income  US$32.67 billion (2020)

Net income  US$29.15 billion (2020)

 US$159.32 billion (2020)
Total assets
 US$128.29 billion (2020)
Total equity

Owner Mark Zuckerberg (controlling shareholder)

 Number of 60,654 (March 31, 2021)
employees

Divisions Facebook Financial

Facebook Technologies

Website about.fb.com

Footnotes / references
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Facebook, Inc., is an American multinational conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded

by Mark Zuckerberg, along with his fellow roommates and students at Harvard College, who were Eduardo
Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, originally as TheFacebook.com—
today's Facebook, a popular global social networking service. It is one of the world's most valuable
companies. It is considered one of the Big Five companies in U.S. information technology,
with Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.
Facebook offers other products and services beyond its social networking platform, including Facebook
Messenger, Facebook Watch, and Facebook Portal. It also has
acquired Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus, Giphy and Mapillary, and has a 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms.[9]

Contents

 1History
o 1.1Mergers and acquisitions
o 1.2Lobbying
o 1.3Lawsuits
 2Structure
o 2.1Management
o 2.2Board of directors
o 2.3Company governance
 3Revenue
o 3.1Number of advertisers
o 3.2Tax affairs
 4Facilities
o 4.1Offices
o 4.2Data centres
 5References
 6External links