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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

The History of Facebook as a Facebook Timeline

By Derek Thompson
Feb 1 2012, 5:23 PM ET Comment

Facebook's S-1 filing for its upcoming IPO went up online this afternoon, revealing that the company's revenue grew from $1.9 billion to $3.7 billion in the last year. That's a far cry from the $382,000 the company made in 2004, the year Mark Zuckerberg founded the company under the name thefacebook.com.


Cleverly, here is the history of the company, presented as a Facebook timeline, which is the site's new architecture for organizing personal pages chronologically. See the infographic larger on page 43 here.

 

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