Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook.
Whenever we talk about Facebook and the numbers relating to the most popular social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg, we always end up being surprised and puzzled by those figures.
Recently, General Atlantic, one of the largest capital investment in the world, has reportedly purchased a block of shares of the company in Palo Alto for a total of $2.5 million.
The investment represents a share of 0.1% of the total value of Facebook, which was estimated by General Atlantic at about $65 billion, some $15 billion more than the $50 billion indicated by Goldman Sachs.
What’s most striking is the constant relaunch of increasingly higher numbers, which revolves around the value of Facebook. Facebook does not create or sell services. It is a platform made of 500 million users who exchange information in a relational network deployed globally. Its value grows, on a purely nominal level, month after month at a frenetic and unjustified pace.
Large investors have sensed the deal, be it real or fake. The trend today is to invest, invest, invest. It is a reckless and dangerous tendency that has inflated the financial speculation based on the “virtual economy” out of proportion.
Investors are not business angels. Money and heaven never go hand in hand. Those who put the capital demand a substantial return on investment within a few years. Exit strategies are not mere stylistic exercises aimed at filling a business plan. The trend will become sell, sell, sell, here and now. It will be then that the foundation behind this evanescent castle made of bytes will start to creak dangerously.
$65 billion is comparable to a small financial maneuver of an entire country. One wonders if, behind his unquestioned popularity, Facebook really is worth all that money.
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