From letter to prospective shareholders, which is included in the IPO prospectus.
Philosophy worth quoting and emulating:
- “Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission.”
- “We think it’s important that everyone who invests in Facebook understands what this mission means to us, how we make decisions and why we do the things we do.”
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“We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.”
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“We don’t wake up in the morning with the primary goal of making money”
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“We’re going public for our employees and our investors.”
Source: http://read.bi/J2uxa4