Facebook Valuation Debate

The cluster discusses skepticism and justification around Facebook's high valuations (e.g., $33B, $100B+), referencing articles questioning its worth, IPO performance, investments, and acquisitions like Instagram.

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antirez Dec 21, 2011 View on HN

Not really, what disappears is the Facebook "potential" to make money, and the valuation is done thinking at this possibility. Now if you look at it in this way, billions of people using Facebook can be monetized probably much better in the long run compared to selling a new HD from time to time to millions.

checker659 Feb 21, 2014 View on HN

That's how much it's worth to Facebook. Not to you and I but to Facebook.

pb Oct 6, 2016 View on HN

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33...

markeroon Aug 3, 2017 View on HN

Given that Facebook is now worth $500B, this seems like a weird article to post.

patrickaljord May 23, 2012 View on HN

Shouldn't this say "Facebook is valued more than..."?

mw63214 Jul 28, 2011 View on HN

Hopefully this sheds some light as to why fb is being valued so highly.

dplakon Jul 13, 2011 View on HN

true, I think facebook just got a 100B valuation...

belter Oct 5, 2021 View on HN

Leave it...its adjusted to the real value of Facebook.

dollaholla Dec 20, 2016 View on HN

Why is a job at FB worth more than a ~$10M acquisition?

dangerlibrary Mar 26, 2014 View on HN

Facebook spent 400m and 1.6b of overvalued stock.