Picking up some pre-IPO options in a Facebook would also be a nice reason to become a Facebooker. Google had 2,668 employees in September 2004, just after it I

Picking up some pre-IPO options in a Facebook would also be a nice reason to become a Facebooker. Google had 2,668 employees in September 2004, just after it IPO'd, and at the beginning of 2010 it had about 20,000. eBay IPO'd in September 1998 with only about 30 employees and revenues of $4.7 million. In 2008 it had about 16,000. Facebook will definitely IPO at some point, its VCs will demand it, and this recruit is perhaps more for IPO marketing than anything else. It now claims to have 1400+ staff. http://investor.google.com/corporate/faq.html#employees http://investor.google.com/corporate/faq.html#employees http://www.swivel.com/workbooks/27740-Google-Number-of-employees-since-founding http://www.swivel.com/workbooks/27740-Google-Number-of-emplo... http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet