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Have you ever check out Facebook > About Us > Press Room > Facts ? I did, bet you didn't! Here are some interesting tibits I found out while I'm there and over at forbes we have #785 Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook with net worth of US$ 1.5 billion. Yes, and his single and just 23, so what are you waiting for! Did you know he is a Havard Dropout!

Founded in February 2004. Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world, and one of the largest MySQL installations anywhere, running thousands of databases.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while still a student at Harvard University. Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Ivy League. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. Peter Thiel was the first person to fund the company, with an initial investment of US$500,000.

Funding: Round one: $500,000 from Peter Thiel, Summer 2004; Round two: $12.7 million from Accel Partners, April 2005; Round three: $27.5 million from Greylock Partners leading the round, Meritech Capital Partners participating, and Accel Partners and Peter Thiel increasing their investment in the company.

Users: 90 million active (users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days)

Source
http://www.new.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/10/billionaires08_Mark-Zuckerberg_I9UB....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#cite_note-Estimated_annual_sales-1