25 Interesting Facts That You Do Not Know About FB


2. The Zuckerberg family spent $85,000 in FB’s first summer to keep the company running. Mark Zuckerberg is worth around $19 billion now.

3. When Facebook made its stock market debut via NASDAQ on 18 May 2012, the shares of the enterprise was priced at $38. That means the valuation of the corporation was over $100 billion. Facebook was worth more than eBay, Yahoo, Netflix, IAC, AOL, Zynga, Groupon, LinkedIn, and Pandora combined.

4. The first corporate partnership of FB was launched in May 2006 with Apple, Microsoft, Intel, EA and Amazon. Before that, it had partnered with Accenture, Gap, Intuit, Pepsi, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. As a part of corporate social responsibility, it took up ‘Teach for America’ project.

5. Co-founder of Napster, Sean Parker transformed Facebook from a college project to an actual company. As brought out in the 2010 film ‘The Social Network’, Parker changed the social networking site’s name from Thefacebook.com to Facebook.com buying the domain for $200,000. Further, it was Parker who suggested the popular feature - photo sharing.

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