Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake

Re:Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake by gmjosack on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @04:26PM (#15760813)

This is nit-picky but the world population is 7.5 billion these days so it's closer to 1/4 (27.6%) the world population than 1/3.

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Re:Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake by kevstev on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @05:06PM (#15761116)

That's actually a good thing for their long term outlook- a higher ceiling on their potential growth.

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Re:Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake by MarkMc on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @07:21PM (#15761832)

True, although the number of active users is only a small component of Facebook's enormous growth.

In past 4 years Facebook have grown their user base by 80%, mostly in lower-income countries. But over the same period revenue has grown 400% and pretax profit 600%.

So Facebook will likely have significant growth long after their user base levels off.

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