How They Got Here
FEBRUARY 4
• Zuckerberg launches TheFacebook during Harvard’s shopping week
• The site runs off of one server for $85 per month
FEBRUARY 18 – 4,300 users
• Zuckerberg is first approached by investors
• Moskovitz is enlisted to expand site to other schools
LATE FEBRUARY - MARCH 5 – 10,000
• TheFacebook reaches Columbia, Yale, Stanford
MARCH 31 – 31,000
• The site now runs off of 5 servers, costing $450 per month
APRIL 14 – 51,910
• TheFacebook moves its servers to a boutique hosting service near Zuckerberg’s new York hometown
APRIL 25 – EARLY MAY – 82,000
• Moskovitz leads nationwide expansion
• Saverin experiments with national advertising
• Zuckerberg and McCollum begin discussing Wirehog
JUNE 10 – LATE JUNE – 160,000
• TheFacebook moves to Palo Alto, California
• Sean Parker, two interns join the team
• Saverin goes to New York
JULY 21 – AUGUST 25 – 190,000
• TheFacebook falls $50,000 in debt
• Zuckerberg meets with investors
• The team redesigns and relaunches the site
EARLY SEPTEMBER – 250,000
• ConnectU files lawsuit against TheFacebook
• Casa Facebook moves to Los Altos, CA
• D’Angelo, Saverin, interns return to school.
OCT 21 – 500,000
• Wirehog launches (first week in November)
• Zuckerberg meets with East Coast investors
NOVEMBER 30 – 910,000
• Angel investor Peter Thiel throws One Million User Party at Frisson (San Francisco)
JANUARY 16 – 1.3 million
• Casa Facebook moves to Menlo Park
• Press representative Chris Hughes moves to France
FEB 7 – 1.5 million
• National Beirut Tournament briefly launched, cancelled
• First European schools launched
