Organization
Meta Platforms
American social media company founded as Thefacebook in 2004; renamed Meta Platforms in 2021.
- Dates
- 2004 –
- Place
- Menlo Park
- Also known as
- Facebook, Facebook, Inc., Thefacebook, Meta
- Active 2004 –
- CEO Mark Zuckerberg Jul 2004 –
- board members Jim Breyer Apr 2005 – Jun 2013
- board members Peter Thiel Apr 2005 – May 2022
- people who worked here Randi Zuckerberg (director of marketing) 1 Sep 2005 – Aug 2011
- people who worked here Alexandr Wang (Chief AI Officer) Jun 2025 –
- includes Meta Superintelligence Labs 30 Jun 2025 –
Each line is from its own filing and date, so they do not add up. Some filings report a number of shares and no percent.
Facebook was started by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University in 2004 and incorporated that July. Its early backers were Peter Thiel (2004), Accel with Jim Breyer (2005) and Microsoft (2007). The company took the name Meta Platforms in 2021.
Connections 16
founded by
- Mark Zuckerberg Feb 2004 Primary record 89
CEO
- Mark Zuckerberg Jul 2004 – Primary record 910
people who worked here
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Randi Zuckerberg
1 Sep 2005 – Aug 2011
director of marketing
Primary record
91112
She left in August 2011 to start her own company.
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Alexandr Wang
Jun 2025 –
Chief AI Officer
Primary record
213141516171819
Meta confirmed on 2025-06-12 that he would join; Mark Zuckerberg's staff memo of 2025-06-30 says he has joined as Chief AI Officer. The exact start date is not stated.
board members
- Jim Breyer Apr 2005 – Jun 2013 Primary record 920
- Peter Thiel Apr 2005 – May 2022 Primary record 910
invested in
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Scale AI
21 May 2024
new investor in the $1 billion Series F
Primary record
2122
Amazon, Cisco Investments, Intel Capital and others also joined as new investors.
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Scale AI
12 Jun 2025
non-voting minority investment, $14.3B
Primary record
234561618192324
Amount as reported by CNBC (citing a Scale AI spokesperson) and AP; Scale's release gives no figure, only a valuation of over $29 billion. Meta's FY2025 10-K carries its minority investments in Scale AI at $13.80 billion.
investors
- Peter Thiel 2004 first outside investor (10.2%), $500,000 Scholarship & press 25
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Accel
May 2005
lead investor, 2005 round, $12.7M
Primary record
926
Widely reported as Facebook's Series A. Facebook's 2012 prospectus dates its Series A financing to 2005 and lists Accel among the parties to its investors' rights agreement.
- Jim Breyer May 2005 personal investment alongside Accel, $1M Scholarship & press 26
- Microsoft Oct 2007 equity stake at a $15 billion valuation, $240M Primary record 27
owns a stake in
stakeholders
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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
31 Mar 2016
414,569,691 shares, as of 31 Mar 2016
Primary record
1
445,946 Class A and 414,123,745 Class B shares (414,569,691 in all), held by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, LLC. Facebook's filings say Mark Zuckerberg controls the voting of these shares.
includes
- Meta Superintelligence Labs 30 Jun 2025 – Scholarship & press 131628
headquartered in
- Menlo Park Primary record 9
Timeline 15 dates
- 2004 – Meta Platforms
- 2004 Peter Thiel invested in Meta Platforms
- Feb 2004 Mark Zuckerberg founded Meta Platforms
- Jul 2004 – Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Meta Platforms
- Apr 2005 – Jun 2013 Jim Breyer board member of Meta Platforms
- Apr 2005 – May 2022 Peter Thiel board member of Meta Platforms
- May 2005 Accel invested in Meta Platforms
- May 2005 Jim Breyer invested in Meta Platforms
- 1 Sep 2005 – Aug 2011 Randi Zuckerberg worked at Meta Platforms
- Oct 2007 Microsoft invested in Meta Platforms
- 31 Mar 2016 Chan Zuckerberg Initiative owns a stake in Meta Platforms
- 21 May 2024 Meta Platforms invested in Scale AI
- Jun 2025 – Alexandr Wang worked at Meta Platforms
- 12 Jun 2025 Meta Platforms invested in Scale AI
- 30 Jun 2025 – Meta Superintelligence Labs part of Meta Platforms
Proof 28 sources
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Facebook, Inc. 2016 proxy statement (Schedule 14A), Meta Platforms, 2 Jun 2016.
Primary record
445,946 shares of Class A common stock and 414,123,745 shares of Class B common stock held of record by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, LLC (CZI). The 2006 Trust is the sole member of CZI.
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Scale AI's Alexandr Wang confirms departure for Meta as part of $14.3 billion deal, CNBC, 12 Jun 2025.
Scholarship & press
Meta is pumping $14.3 billion into Scale AI as part of the deal, and will have a 49% stake in the artificial intelligence startup, but will not have any voting power, a Scale AI spokesperson said.
As part of this, we will deepen the work we do together producing data for AI models and Alexandr Wang will join Meta to work on our superintelligence efforts
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Meta ramps up AI efforts by paying $14.3 billion for 49% of Scale, Fortune (Associated Press), 13 Jun 2025.
Scholarship & press
Meta will hold a 49% stake in the startup.
Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.
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Scale AI Announces Next Phase of Company’s Evolution, Scale AI, 12 Jun 2025.
Primary record
Following its investment, Meta will hold a minority of Scale’s outstanding equity.
Scale AI, Inc. (“Scale” or the “Company”), the humanity-first AI company, today announced a significant new investment from Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) that values Scale at over $29 billion.
today announced a significant new investment from Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) that values Scale at over $29 billion.
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Meta Platforms, Inc. Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2025, Meta Platforms, 31 Jul 2025.
Primary record
In June 2025, we completed an investment in Scale AI by acquiring a non-voting minority of its outstanding equity.
Out of the total consideration, $13.79 billion was included in non-marketable equity investments accounted for under the measurement alternative method
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Meta Platforms, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, Meta Platforms, 29 Jan 2026.
Primary record
mostly consist of our minority investments in Scale AI for $13.80 billion, which was closed during 2025
our minority investments in Scale AI for $13.80 billion, which was closed during 2025
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Scale AI's life after Meta deal has been rocky, but CFO insists it's not a 'zombie company', CNBC, 4 Nov 2025.
Scholarship & press
With its investment, Meta has a 49% stake in a company valued on paper at $29 billion. But Meta has no voting power, a Scale spokesperson told CNBC in June
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Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg, TIME, 15 Dec 2010.
Scholarship & press
in February 2004, when Zuckerberg was a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard, he started a Web service from his dorm. It was called Thefacebook.com
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Facebook, Inc. registration statement (Form S-1), February 2012, Meta Platforms, 1 Feb 2012.
Primary record
Mark Zuckerberg is our founder and has served as our CEO and as a member of our board of directors since July 2004.
Randi Zuckerberg, the sister of Mark Zuckerberg, our founder, Chairman, and CEO, was employed by us until August 2011.
James W. Breyer has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2005.
Peter A. Thiel has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2005.
along with entities affiliated with Mr. Thiel, Accel Partners, and DST Global Limited, as well as certain other parties, are parties to the IRA. We originally entered into the IRA in connection with our Series A financing in 2005
We were incorporated in July 2004 and are headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
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Meta Platforms, Inc. 2022 proxy statement (Schedule 14A), Meta Platforms, Apr 2022.
Primary record
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
Peter will be retiring from our board when his term concludes at the Annual Meeting.
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Randi Zuckerberg leaves Facebook, CNN, 3 Aug 2011.
Scholarship & press
Archived copy
Zuckerberg, who served as director of marketing at Facebook for six years, helped break down the barriers between traditional media and social networking, headlining projects and partnerships with media companies and worldwide events.
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Randi Zuckerberg: How I Learned to Balance Business and Creativity (excerpt from Dot Complicated), The Daily Beast, 4 Nov 2013.
Self-published
Archived copy
I officially joined on September 1, 2005. But it was a few more weeks before I was in the office full-time.
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Mark Zuckerberg announces creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Read the memo, CNBC, 30 Jun 2025.
Scholarship & press
Alexandr Wang has joined Meta to serve as our Chief AI Officer and lead MSL.
We're going to call our overall organization Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). This includes all of our foundations, product, and FAIR teams, as well as a new lab focused on developing the next generation of our models.
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Meta is shaking up its AI org, again, TechCrunch, 19 Aug 2025.
Scholarship & press
The changes were announced by Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta as chief AI officer in June.
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A 44-minute call and a memo: How Alexandr Wang won Mark Zuckerberg’s trust—and a $100 billion-plus AI bet, Fortune, 17 Oct 2026.
Scholarship & press
Alexandr Wang, chief AI officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026.
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Mark Zuckerberg announces creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Read the memo, CNBC (via NBC New York), 30 Jun 2025.
Scholarship & press
Alexandr Wang has joined Meta to serve as our Chief AI Officer and lead MSL.
Earlier in June, the company said it would hire Wang, now Meta's chief AI officer, and some of his colleagues as part of a $14.3 billion investment into Scale AI.
Zuckerberg said the new AI superintelligence unit, MSL, will house the company's various teams working on foundation models such as the open-source Llama software, products and Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Research projects
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Expedia Group, Inc. 2026 Proxy Statement (Schedule 14A), Expedia Group, 29 Apr 2026.
Primary record
Chief AI Officer, Meta Platforms, Inc. (since June 2025)
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Scale AI Announces Next Phase of Company’s Evolution, Scale AI, 12 Jun 2025.
Primary record
In addition, Scale’s founder, Alexandr Wang, is joining Meta to work on Meta’s AI efforts. Wang will continue to serve as a director on the Scale Board of Directors
today announced a significant new investment from Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) that values Scale at over $29 billion.
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Meta Taps Scale’s `AI Whisperer’ Wang to Speed AI Turnaround, Bloomberg News (via Bloomberg Tax), 16 Jun 2025.
Scholarship & press
a $14.3 billion investment from Meta in Scale, and a new job for himself in Meta’s “superintelligence” group, reporting to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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Facebook, Inc. 2013 proxy statement (Schedule 14A), Meta Platforms, Apr 2013.
Primary record
On April 23, 2013, Mr. Breyer notified us of his decision not to stand for reelection to our board of directors at the 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (Annual Meeting).
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Scale’s Series F: Expanding the Data Foundry for AI, Scale AI, 21 May 2024.
Primary record
We also are excited to welcome new investors: Cisco Investments, DFJ Growth, Intel Capital, ServiceNow Ventures, AMD Ventures, WCM, Amazon, Elad Gil, Meta, and Qualcomm Ventures.
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Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B, TechCrunch, 21 May 2024.
Scholarship & press
has raised a $1 billion Series F round from big-name institutional and corporate investors that include Amazon and Meta.
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The inside story of Scale AI cofounder Alexandr Wang’s rise and the $14 billion Meta deal, Fortune, 22 Jun 2025.
Scholarship & press
the eventual arrangement of Meta investing $14.3 billion for 49% of Scale in nonvoting shares with potential future conversion
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Scale AI confirms 'significant' investment from Meta, says CEO Alexandr Wang is leaving, TechCrunch, 13 Jun 2025.
Scholarship & press
Reports indicate that Meta invested about $14.3 billion for a 49% stake in the startup
Meta has finalized our strategic partnership and investment in Scale AI.
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Peter Thiel: Facebook IPO, CNBC, May 2012.
Scholarship & press
His $500,000 investment in 2004 represented 10.2 percent of the company at the time.
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Jim Breyer (via Accel Partners), CNBC, May 2012.
Scholarship & press
In May 2005, at Breyer's urging, Accel invested $12.7 million in Facebook, and Breyer added $1 million of his own money to the pot.
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Facebook and Microsoft Expand Strategic Alliance, Microsoft, 24 Oct 2007.
Primary record
Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in Facebook’s next round of financing at a $15 billion valuation.
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Meta restructures its AI unit under ‘Superintelligence Labs’, TechCrunch, 30 Jun 2025.
Scholarship & press
Going forward, all teams working on AI at Meta will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to Bloomberg, which viewed an internal memo sent Monday.
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