Before Quote by George Packer

Facebook is a powerful company, yes, but so was IBM.

— Caterina Fake

I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company…

— John Battelle

Corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, all of these large companies, are making tens or hundreds of billions of dollars off of monetising people's data.

— Brittany Kaiser

“Your personal life is now known as Facebook’s data. Its CEO’s personal life is now known as mind your own business.”

— Glenn Greenwald

Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its…

— Didier Sornette

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open…

— Mark Zuckerberg

Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're…

— Parker Harris

Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the…

— Yuri Milner

“The iGods started pure—Google wasn’t sure they wanted advertising. Going public with their stock resulted in the need for quarterly returns. It forced Google…

— Craig Detweiler

As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would…

— Dustin Moskovitz

In the increasingly digital world, data is a valuable currency, yet as consumers, we control and own little of it. As consumers, we must…

— William Mougayar

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

— James Altucher