Unless you have a way to separate out what is attributable to forward investment vs current operating expense / revenue I don't think you can tell. Zuckerberg h

Unless you have a way to separate out what is attributable to forward investment vs current operating expense / revenue I don't think you can tell. Zuckerberg himself has painted a 10 year timeline on the investments they are making now. To take it to a silly extreme, Apple has probably burned $14bn and hasn't released anything yet. So they have burned $infinity for every dollar they made. Does it make it a failure?