11 cool facts you'll want to know after seeing the facebook movie
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1. Facebook is likely worth much more than was mentioned in The Social Network movie
As of a recently announced 5-to-1 stock split earlier this month, Facebook is currently valued at US $32 billion, not the US $25 billion as is stated at the end of the movie.
2. Facebook only has 1600 employees
Facebook employs about 1600 people and serves approximately 500 million members. That’s over 300,000 members per each Facebook employee, so don’t get too offended if they don’t get around to answering your emails too quickly. To put things into perspective, Google has over 21,000 employees and Microsoft has around 89,000.
3. Mark Zuckerberg is currently the youngest billionaire alive
Mark Zuckerberg currently owns a 24% share of Facebook valued at approximately US $7.68 billion. He is 26.
4. Eduardo Saverin is also a billionaire
Although exact settlement figures were left out of the movie, the co-founder and early CFO of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin, currently owns a 5% share of Facebook valued at around US $1.3 billion. Not too shabby.
5. Sean Parker no longer actively works for Facebook
After an arrest in 2005 for alleged cocaine possession, Napster founder Sean Parker was quietly removed from business operations at Facebook. He and Zuckerberg still frequently consult with one another regarding the company, and Parker remains a major shareholder of Facebook’s privately held stock. Parker still denies all drug allegations.
6. Facemash.com is up for sale
Since being featured in The Social Network movie, Facemash.com, the domain that was the product of Zuckerberg’s break-up fueled hacking spree, has seen a rise in traffic to nearly 1000 hits per day. The domain is currently available for sale on Flippa.com with current bids at US $19,000.
7. Mark Zuckerberg RENTS his house
As shown in a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg currently lives in an extremely modest home that he rents with his girlfriend in Palo Alto, California. Wow ..
8. Ninety nine takes
The opening scene of the The Social Network movie took over 99 takes to film before director David Fincher was happy with it. The crew wanted to shoot an additional version of the scene in order to reach the 100 take mark, but Fincher said no.
9. Microsoft owns a chunk of Facebook
In 2007, Microsoft purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook for US $240 million. The deal provided Microsoft with rights over certain kinds of 3rd party advertising on Facebook.
10. Several countries have banned Facebook
Facebook is currently unavailable to citizens of China, North Korea, Pakistan, Vietnam, Syria, and Iran. Together these countries have a combined population of approximately 1.7 billion people.
11. Peter Thiel was the co-founder of PayPal
Although unmentioned in the movie, Peter Thiel, the angel investor who gave US $500,000 to Facebook as startup capital, was the co-founder of PayPal.
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