In the last couple of years – it seems like forever, really – the tech world has been fixed on finding how much the biggest social network, Facebook, is worth.
Right
now, if you trust the valuations at SecondMarket – an online
marketplace for trading with otherwise illiquid assets – Facebook is
currently worth around 41 billion dollars, Businessweek has learned from
a source familiar with the matter.
Back in 2007, Facebook was said to be worth $15 billion; its valuation “dropped†to a “meager†2.7 billion at recession’s peak, but it rose unstoppably ever since.
