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by MichaelGG 4496 days ago
If you can call a P/E of 800+ "very profitable"? Making $20M a year profit is no small thing at all, and I'm sure if it was bought for a billion, you'd see far less comments on the subject.
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It makes $20 million in revenue. I've read that they're profitable, but never the number.
Goes to show that only 20 Million out of 430M paid the $1/year (which has something to do with it not being charged everywhere and people having a 1 year grace period and a majority of their target market having no credit card (young audience in emerging markets)). Let's see how Zuckerberg plans to change that drastically.
With advertising or selling user information? That seems to be the most likely to me given Facebook's history
32 employees * 100,000 = 3.2 million Let's say a million a year for office space and another million for infrastructure and bandwidth, seems like they were fairly profitable for what they had. No idea how Facebook plans to recoup $20 billion though.
Not with charging $1 a pop, that's for sure.