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Twenty-Three Year-Old Facebook Founder worth $5 billion

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In your opinion, will Facebook.com be around in 5 years?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 64.7%
  • No

    Votes: 12 35.3%

  • Total voters
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dhuang

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Heh, all very valid points Jscott. I know that Google's main source of revenue is their Adwords program, and considering I'm paying them to use it suggest that they're doing something right. ;)

It's quite cool to see your friend use Facebook as a marketing vehicle. I also use Facebook to advertise as well, but I'm not too keen on the whole monetizing purely off of advertising either.

Btw JScott, what kind of E-commerce/E-Business do you dabble into?
 
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WheelsRCool

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Cool info guys. I read the Google guys are now each worth about $20 billion I think from their Google stock (!!!).

Regarding the Facebook guy as a "one-hit wonder," so were Bill Gates and the Google guys I believe, just once they started getting lots more revenue, they hired more people into their companies and had them develop new products, services, etc...
 

dhuang

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CRBFL

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Thanks for the rep. It's appreciated.
 

dhuang

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Well, looks like Mark Zuckerberg made Forbes list this time. Youngest Billionaire that is self made.

$1.5 Billion "invisible" net worth with a 30% stake in Facebook.

Forbes valued Facebook at $5 Billion, instead of the outrageous $15 Billion with Microsoft's $240 Million for 1.6% Stake.

He better sell soon, otherwise Facebook could be looking like "just another passing fad."

I guess I need to work harder to top this guy! =)
 

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Forgive me for resurrecting a thread from 2007, but I thought it was interesting to see how people viewed facebook. It has now been 5 years later and facebook is still around and it is a giant. I personally do not use it and can’t stand it, I had it for a while but the constant stalking by ex’s and people who I may have passed by the hallways in high school really freaked me out.

Mark Zuckerberg’s current wealth is roughly $9.4 Billion, I am not sure if that was taken before or after FB’s disastrous public offering.

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has a market cap of roughly $65 billion.

Can we do another poll and see where we think FB will be in 5 years? Personally I think it will go the way of the dodo, but what do I know.
 
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FB is more entrenched than a friendster, myspace so is less vulnerable to be knocked off by a new competitor, but if it oversteps its bounds to monetize and upset users, it will be vulnerable to an open source replacement. A key would be making it easy to for people to transfer their content/connections/friends/likes etc....
 

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Forgive me for resurrecting a thread from 2007, but I thought it was interesting to see how people viewed facebook. It has now been 5 years later and facebook is still around and it is a giant. I personally do not use it and can’t stand it, I had it for a while but the constant stalking by ex’s and people who I may have passed by the hallways in high school really freaked me out.

Mark Zuckerberg’s current wealth is roughly $9.4 Billion, I am not sure if that was taken before or after FB’s disastrous public offering.

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has a market cap of roughly $65 billion.

Can we do another poll and see where we think FB will be in 5 years? Personally I think it will go the way of the dodo, but what do I know.

How I stumbled here is beyond me...but here we are again.

Time flies.
 

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Wow, a thread from 2007. A blast from the past.

Turns out....most of the folks who commented in 2007 were wrong....
 
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Facebook is the real deal. Trust me. Advertisers can reach out to 100s of millions of people via this social networking website. It has a wider reach than any other medium. Think how much advertisers will pay for spots on FB. Zuckerberg is going to keep his billions and more. He's the 21st century Bill Gates. This may sound crazy but, I believe he will be richer than Gates in a few years.

People today spend more time online than watching TV. The internet is bigger than TV. FB is the internets top dog. Worth every penny. You have millions of people who sign into Facebook every single day and spend hours. Imagine how much advertisers will pay to reach these people ? Imagine how many goods and services you can sell via FB. Facebook has it own economy with people being able to buy gifts to post on their friends profile pages. Its crazy. U guys need to join FB and see for yourself.

Peter2, I recommend you sign up on FB and you will see what I mean.

If you have any predictions for the future I’m all ears, incredibly accurate prediction.
 

JunkBoxJoey_JBJ

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Wow, a thread from 2007. A blast from the past.

Turns out....most of the folks who commented in 2007 were wrong....

And last comment was really in 2013, so oddly enough here we are again, “again”.
 

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What will it look like in 2025? The media's been going hard at demonizing FB. Will Zuck come out on top? Will users spend enough time on their platform? Will it still be an attractive advertising venue in 2025?
 

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MARK
Your date looks so familiar to me,

SEAN
She looks familiar to a lot of people.

MARK
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SEAN

Look at any Victoria's Secret catalogue
from the last six months.

. MARK
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You're kidding.

SEAN
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how I founded Napster?

MARK
I know everything there is to know about
you Sean.

SEAN
F*ck Wikipedia, Mark, no you don't.

(BEAT)
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.whole time we were together., like five
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It's our time. We run the universe. Yeah,
she's a Victoria's Secret model. I want
to know where the F*ck Eduardo is.
 
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Xeon

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What will it look like in 2025? The media's been going hard at demonizing FB. Will Zuck come out on top? Will users spend enough time on their platform? Will it still be an attractive advertising venue in 2025?

Maybe Bezos will buy and acquire Facebook, and together with that, Instagram and Whatsapp as well.
 
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Scot

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I'm pretty sure he is not even a millionaire. That valuation is just stupid fiction and will never translate in to real life. My guess is that they could get $3 billion for the company today, and that is waaaaaaaaaay to high for a company with that kind of revenue and profit.

Mark would get about $900 million of that. Not a bad amount, but far from $5 billion, however it could go the way of Friendster and be worth a fraction of these numbers very quickly.

Welp.. this comment didn’t age well now did it haha
 

MJ DeMarco

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Thread is as old as this forum! Interesting to see the wide variety of opinions for something emerging ... emerging to ubiquity? Or emerging into oblivion?

Perhaps in 5 years we'll be looking at the Cannabis and Crypto threads to see how opinions materialized, or didn't.
 

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