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Our Mission

Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.

Headquarters

1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025

Employees

6,337 employees as of December 2013

Statistics

  • 945 million monthly active users who used Facebook mobile products as of December 31, 2013.
  • 757 million daily active users on average in December 2013.
  • Approximately 81% of our daily active users are outside the U.S. and Canada.
  • 1.23 billion monthly active users as of December 31, 2013.

Offices

U.S. offices
Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Denver, Los Angeles, Menlo Park, Miami, New York, Reno, Seattle, Washington D.C.
International offices
Amsterdam, Auckland, Berlin, Brasilia, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Dublin, Gurgaon, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Karlsruhe, Kuala Lumpur, London, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, Mumbai, New Delhi, Paris, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, Warsaw
Data Centers
Altoona, Ashburn, Forest City, Lulea, Prineville, Sunnyvale

Timeline

  • Dec. 15, 2013
    Donate launched.
  • Dec 12, 2013
    Instagram Direct launched.
  • Aug 20, 2013
    Facebook announces Internet.org.
  • July 21, 2013
    More than 100 million people use Facebook For Every Phone each month.
  • June 20, 2013
    Video on Instagram launched.
  • April 22, 2013
    Facebook announces new data center in Altoona, Iowa.
  • April 12, 2013
    Home launched.
  • Feb 26, 2013
    More than 100 million people use Instagram every month.
  • Jan 15, 2013
    Graph Search Beta launched.
  • Oct 4, 2012
    More than one billion people are active on Facebook.
  • Sept 27, 2012
    Facebook Gifts launched.
  • May 24, 2012
    Facebook Camera launched.
  • May 18, 2012
    Facebook hold its initial public offering.
  • April 9, 2012
    Facebook announces acquisition of Instagram.
  • Dec 19, 2011
    Facebook moves to a new home in Menlo Park, Calif.
  • Dec 7, 2011
    Facebook DC hosts its first Congressional Developer Hackathon.
  • Nov 6, 2011
    Facebook reaches 845 million users.
  • Oct 11, 2011
    Launch of Facebook for iPad.
  • Sep 22, 2011
    Timeline, a way for people to share the story of their life, introduced at f8.
  • Jul 6, 2011
    Launch of video calling
  • Apr 20, 2011
    President Barack Obama visits Facebook.
  • Apr 15, 2011
    Prineville Data Center opens.
  • Mar 12, 2011
    First official Facebook Hacker Cup.
  • Dec 5, 2010
    Launch of the new profile.
  • Dec. 2010
    Facebook reaches 608 million users.
  • Sept. 2010
    Facebook Hyderabad opens.
  • Oct 6, 2010
    Introduction of new Groups.
  • Aug 18, 2010
    Launch of Facebook Places.
  • Jul 21, 2010
    Launch of Facebook Stories application.
  • Jul 28, 2010
    Launch of Facebook Questions.
  • Jan 21, 2010
    Break ground on our first custom-built data center in Prineville, Oregon.
  • Dec 2009
    Facebook reaches 360 million users.
  • Aug 3, 2009
    Facebook New York opens.
  • Jun 13, 2009
    Launch of Facebook Usernames.
  • May 29, 2009
    Facebook moves to new offices at 1601 South California Ave., Palo Alto.
  • May 16, 2009
    Facebook celebrates its annual Game Day, a day of games and fun for employees.
  • Mar 11, 2009
    New Facebook home page launches.
  • Feb 9, 2009
    Introduction of the Like button.
  • Dec. 2008
    Facebook Dublin opens.
  • Jul 21, 2008
    New Facebook launches.
  • Jul 10, 2008
    Facebook iPhone app launches.
  • Apr 6, 2008
    Launch of Facebook Chat.
  • Mar 3, 2008
    Facebook launches in German.
  • Jan 17, 2008
    Facebook Hackathon '08.
  • Jan 5, 2008
    Facebook co-sponsors Presidential Debates with ABC News.
  • Dec 2007
    Facebook reaches 58 million users.
  • Nov 2007
    Launch of self-service Ads platform + Facebook Pages.
  • Oct 2007
    Launch of Facebook Platform for Mobile.
  • Oct 2007
    Facebook London opens.
  • Jun 22, 2007
    Facebook Video launches.
  • May 24, 2007
    Launch of Facebook Platform.
  • May 14, 2007
    Facebook launches Marketplace application for classified listings.
  • Dec. 2006
    Facebook reaches 12 million users.
  • Sept. 26, 2006
    Facebook expands registration so anyone can join.
  • Sep 5, 2006
    Launch of News Feed and Mini-Feed.
  • Aug 2006
    Facebook introduces the first version of the Facebook API.
  • May 2006
    Facebook expands to add work networks.
  • April 2006
    Facebook for Mobile launches.
  • Dec 2005
    Facebook reaches 6 million users.
  • Oct 2005
    Launch of Facebook Photos.
  • Oct 2005
    Facebook begins to add international school networks.
  • Sept 2005
    Facebook expands to add high school networks.
  • Sept 20, 2005
    thefacebook.com officially drops the "the" and becomes Facebook.
  • May 1, 2005
    Facebook grows to support more than 800 college networks.
  • Dec 2004
    Facebook reaches 1 million users.
  • Sept 2004
    Launch of the Facebook Wall, giving people a place to post messages to their friends.
  • Jun 2004
    Facebook moves to Palo Alto, Calif.
  • Mar 2004
    Facebook expands from Harvard to Stanford, Columbia and Yale.
  • Feb 4, 2004
    Mark Zuckerberg and co-founders Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin launch Facebook.

Our Culture

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Facebook is defined by our hacker culture - an environment that rewards creative problem solving and rapid decision making. We encourage people to be bold. Our open culture keeps everyone informed and allows people to move around and solve the problems they care about most. We work in small teams and move fast to develop new products, constantly iterating and improving. The phrase “this journey is 1% finished” is posted on our walls, reminding us that we’ve only begun to fulfill our mission to make the world more open and connected.

Leadership

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mark is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Facebook, which he founded in 2004. Mark is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company. He leads the design of Facebook's service and development of its core technology and infrastructure. Mark studied computer science at Harvard University before moving the company to Palo Alto, California.
Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg

Chief Operating Officer
Sheryl Sandberg is chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the firm's business operations. Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, chief of staff for the United States Treasury Department under President Clinton, a management consultant with McKinsey & Company, and an economist with the World Bank.
Sheryl received a BA summa cum laude from Harvard University and an MBA with highest distinction from Harvard Business School.
Sheryl is the author of the number-one bestseller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead and founder of LeanIn.Org, a global community supporting women who lean in to their ambitions. Sheryl serves on the boards of Facebook, the Walt Disney Company, Women for Women International, ONE, V-Day, and the Center for Global Development.
Sheryl lives in Menlo Park with her husband, son, daughter, and two fish.
David Ebersman

David Ebersman

Chief Financial Officer
David is Chief Financial Officer of Facebook, where he leads the finance, facilities and information technology teams. Prior to joining Facebook in September 2009, David worked at Genentech Inc., a leading biotechnology company, most recently as its Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. David joined Genentech in 1994 and served in a number of roles, including Senior Vice President, Product Operations; Vice President, Product Development; and Director, Business Development. Prior to Genentech, David worked as a research analyst at Oppenheimer & Company Inc. He serves on the board of Ironwood Pharmaceuticals and was selected as a Fellow in the Henry Crown Fellowship Program. David holds a bachelor’s in economics and international relations from Brown University.
Mike Schroepfer

Mike Schroepfer

Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering
Mike is responsible for harnessing the organization’s culture of speed, creativity and exploration to build products, services and infrastructure that support the more than 1 billion people worldwide who use Facebook. Before coming to Facebook, Mike was the Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, where he led the global, collaborative, open and participatory product development process behind Mozilla's popular software, such as the Firefox web browser.
Mike was formerly the Chief Technology Officer for Sun Microsystems' data center automation division ("N1") and founder, Chief Architect and Director of Engineering at CenterRun.
Mike holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Board of Directors

  • Mark Zuckerberg Founder, Chairman and CEO, Facebook
  • Marc Andreessen Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
  • Susan Desmond-Hellmann Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
  • Donald E. Graham Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
  • Reed Hastings Chairman and CEO, Netflix
  • Erskine Bowles President Emeritus, the University of North Carolina
  • Peter Thiel Partner, Founders Fund
  • Sheryl Sandberg COO, Facebook

Contact Us

press@fb.com

Investor Relations

investor.fb.com

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