Meta Platforms

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Meta Platforms, Inc., known before 2021 as Facebook, Inc., is an American multinational Internet corporation which owns Facebook. It was owned by Mark Zuckerberg, other founders and the shared ownership given to its employees but it went public on February 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta, Inc. started to be publicly negotiated on May 18, 2012.

Meta Platforms

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Entrance sign at Meta's headquarters complex in Menlo Park, California
Trade name	Meta
Formerly	Facebook, Inc.
Company type	Public company
Traded as	NASDAQ: FB (Class A) Nasdaq-100 component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component
Industry	Social media Social network advertising Consumer electronics
Founded	October 28, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-10-28) in California, United States
Founders	Mark Zuckerberg Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz Chris Hughes
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide (except blocked countries)
Key people	Mark Zuckerberg (CEO) Javier Olivan (COO) Susan Li (CFO) Andrew Bosworth (CTO) Chris Cox (CPO) Karthick Krishna M S (CDO)
Brands	Facebook Instagram Messenger WhatsApp Oculus Workplace Portal Diem
Revenue	US$164.5 billion (2024)
Operating income	US$69.4 billion (2024)
Net income	US$62.4 billion (2024)
Total assets	US$276.1 billion (2024)
Total equity	US$182.6 billion (2024)
Owner	Mark Zuckerberg (controlling shareholder)
Number of employees	75,945 (June 2025)
Divisions	Facebook Reality Labs
Subsidiaries	Novi Financial
Website	www.meta.com
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Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication services, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger and WhatsApp. The company also operates an advertising network for its own sites and third parties; as of 2023, advertising accounted for 97.8 percent of its total revenue.

Meta's executive team is led by Mark Zuckerberg, who serves as the Founder, Chairman, and CEO. key executives include Javier Olivan as COO, Susan Li as CFO, Andrew Bosworth as CTO, Chris Cox as CPO And Karthick Krishna M S as Chief Development Officer (CDO) of Meta.

Meta is considered one of the Big Five American technology companies, alongside Alphabet(Google), Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. In 2023, it was ranked 31st on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies.As of 2022, it was the world's third-largest spender on research and development, with R&D expenses totaling US$35.3 billion.