Meta Platforms

Meta Platforms
	Entrance sign at Meta's headquarters complex in Menlo Park, California
Trade name	Meta
Formerly	Facebook, Inc.
Company type	Public company
Traded as	NASDAQ: FB (Class A); Nasdaq-100 component; S&P 100 component; S&P 500 component;
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide (except blocked countries)
Key people	{{plainlist\| Mark Zuckerberg (CEO); Javier Olivan (COO); Susan Li (CFO); Andrew Bosworth (CTO); Chris Cox (CPO);
Brands	Facebook; Instagram; Messenger; WhatsApp; Oculus; Workplace; Portal; Diem;
Total equity	US$182.6 billion (2024)
Owner	Mark Zuckerberg (controlling shareholder)
Divisions	Facebook Reality Labs
Subsidiaries	Novi Financial
Website	www.meta.com
	Footnotes / references;

Meta Platforms, Inc., known before 2021 as Facebook, Inc., is an American multinational Internet corporation which owns Facebook. It was owned by Mark Zuckerberg, other founders and the shared ownership given to its employees but it went public on February 1, 2012, and was headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta, Inc. started to be publicly negotiated on May 18, 2012.

Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication services, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger and WhatsApp. The company also operates an advertising network for its own sites and third parties; as of 2023, advertising accounted for 97.8 percent of its total revenue.

Meta's executive team is led by Mark Zuckerberg, who serves as the Founder, Chairman, and CEO. key executives include Javier Olivan as COO, Susan Li as CFO, Andrew Bosworth as CTO, Chris Cox as CPO.

Meta is considered one of the Big Five American technology companies, alongside Alphabet(Google), Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft. In 2023, it was ranked 31st on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies. As of 2022, it was the world's third-largest spender on research and development, with R&D expenses totaling US$35.3 billion.

Meta Platforms Media

Billboard on the Thomson Reuters building welcomes Facebook to Nasdaq in 2012.
Early chart of Facebook's stock
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, in 2012
Entrance to Meta's headquarters complex in Menlo Park, California
Entrance to Facebook's previous headquarters in the Stanford Research Park, Palo Alto, California
Facebook headquarters in 2014