Facebook is a grown up company now [Interactive Timeline]

Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) is that blockbuster movie we all waited years to go see, it was the Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Batman of the tech world. Mark Zuckerberg, the James Cameron who took eight years to create his masterpiece just waiting for the world to be ready for it.

Now we have it. Facebook has filed and all over the internet everyone is talking about the Zuck and his US$100-billion company. Interesting fact, when the world’s largest social network filed its S-1 papers, its 845-million users crashed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s site. That’s some power, no?

The company reported a net income US$1-billion for 2011. Maybe Zuckerberg is trying to say something to Justin Timberlake’s famous line from The Social Network, either way the Zuck is about to become one of the richest men in the world. Nearly 1 000 employees are expected to become millionaires overnight. Yay for for wasting 45-minutes daily playing Farmville or Sims Social.

The team at MBA Online decided to look at what becoming a blue chip company means financially.

Watch interactive timeline below.

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