Facebook originally operated under "thefacebook.com" and bought "facebook.com" for $200,000 in August 2005.[1] Looking at Crunchbase, they had raised around $1

Facebook originally operated under "thefacebook.com" and bought "facebook.com" for $200,000 in August 2005.[1] Looking at Crunchbase, they had raised around $13M at that point, so I'm sure spending $200,000 seemed like a lot at the time.[2] [1] http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/ http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/ [2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook/funding-rounds https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook/funding-rou...