I can see your point. Facebook isn't doing anything short term that is going to achieve returning money to investors in two years. However it's been noted that

I can see your point. Facebook isn't doing anything short term that is going to achieve returning money to investors in two years. However it's been noted that Zuckerberg has longer term ideas of where the company is going. There's the 10 year plan noted here: http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/facebook-10-year-plan/ http://mashable.com/2016/04/12/facebook-10-year-plan/ When a company is going for the long term the short term can suffer.