There’s this little company out there, making big changes. You might have heard of it. It’s called “Facebook”. In fact, you might even be reading this post within Facebook (I just blew my mind).
They’ve burned 700 million dollars in venture cap and dominate the social networking scene (the only other company with growth potential in terms of social networking, in my opinion, is Ning.com). They’re simultaneously waging wars against Google (hoping to reshape search) and Twitter (adding live feeds and real time data aggregation); and on each front it seems that they’re winning. That being said they also have something like 500 billion use
rs (according to Wolfram Alpha). Ok, so they are almost the size of the USA (250,000,000 users). So less than 4% of the world is on Facebook. They don’t seem that big anymore do they?
It must be Mark’s goal to sign up every single person (over the age of 13 of course) in the world. And apparently they’re working at it very hard. When they do it (I don’t think it’s an “if”) it’ll be a momentous occasion: for the 1st time in the history of mankind everyone will be linked by a common technology/platform.
Then what?