How much is Facebook worth to you? If you are like millions of other folks around the world it is worth a few minutes of your time each day.
To the Financial giant Goldman Sachs it is worth a little more… in fact about $50 billion more (yes, that is Billion with a B).
At that price, Facebook would be worth more than Ebay and TimeWarner.
Sachs recently invested a hefty sum of money in the Internet giant raising speculation that Facebook might be preparing to go “Public”. Currently Facebook is a private company headed by founder and Time magazine 2010 Man of the year Mark Zuckerberg.
If the owners of Facebook decide to go public and sell shares of the company, Goldman Sachs and Zuckerberg would be poised to add billions to their already sizeable wealth.
But how could Facebook be worth so much? True, a good portion of web surfers are spending (wasting?)copious hours on the site.
But how can the owners of the site monetize Facebook without driving away visitors?
If you were Mark Zuckerberg, what would you do?