TheFacebook: Stunning Numbers (May 2005)

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by jasonlbaptiste • 17 years ago

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ivankirigin2• 17 years ago

The interesting thing about exponential growth is that the numbers are always stunning.

Ohh, and that is why the singularity doesn't exist.

unalone2• 17 years ago

Ohh, and that is why the singularity doesn't exist.

Hm? How does that follow from your first statement?

ivankirigin2• 17 years ago

You are always in the knee of an exp curve. There is no point in the future where the growth breaks down your models. That is a persistent state of the world right now.

tdm9112• 17 years ago

Oh yeah, and they are already making gazillions of dollars and are profitable.

Didn't Facebook only achieve profitability a month or so ago? Or have I missed something?

hvs• 17 years ago

They just went cash flow positive about a month ago:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/15/facebook-crosses-300-mi...

nikolayv• 17 years ago

Can they not be profitable for a bit and then invest a bunch until they become profitable again?

tdm9112• 17 years ago

Absolutely, I was under the impression that they had for the first time.

Also, were they really making enough money in 2005 for it to be described as 'gazillions'?

sachinag• 17 years ago

This was pre-Photos app, which is what took off like a rocket and blew out their hosting and bandwidth costs. They were profitable before Photos.

tibbon• 17 years ago

Really? Did photos set them under? Almost all FB photos are low resolution compared with the 10MP ones I throw on Flickr and get much less traffic in my estimate.

I believe you, but its amazing that bandwidth costs for photos could set them under for such a long time.

TheFacebook: Stunning Numbers (May 2005)

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