CEO salary, online buzz, and active users: How Facebook compares to prior tech IPOs

Meghan Kelly 2012-05-11 3

We already knew Facebook was huge, but did you realize it has as many monthly active users are there are people in Europe? The company is headed toward an IPO, but where does it stack up against the tech titans that came before it?

The company has been on its roadshow since earlier this week, talking to bankers about potentially investing in the company’s available shares. Facebook is expected to be valued at $10 billion when it makes its stock market debut, making it one of the biggest IPOs in U.S. history. With total revenue for 2011 sitting at $3.7 billion, it is almost a mouse in Google’s $37.9 billion 2011 revenue shadow.

Conversation around the IPO has also been deceiving. In tech hubs from Silicon Valley to Berlin, it seems to be the only thing anyone’s talking about when Facebook comes into the conversation. But of the 66 million people mentioning Facebook on the Internet, less than one percent of those conversations have to do with the impending IPO.

Check out more on how Facebook stacks up in this infographic by Banyan Branch:

Zuckerberg image via Crunchies2009/Flickr

This article first appeared in VentureBeat, our editorial partner in the Valley.

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