Mark Zuckerberg the big boss of Facebook is worth a lot of money as we all know. Which company could Mark purchase currently and still have money left over? Find out after the jump.
Here’s one mobile strategy Mark Zuckerberg could try: Buy Nokia. If the 28-year-old cashed out all his Facebook stock today, he could buy up all of Nokia’s and still have a little under $6 billion left for himself.
On Friday, a day after announcing it was slashing 10,000 jobs, the Finland-based company was worth about $9.3 billion on the New York Stock Exchange. That’s a mighty fall from the middle of 2000, when Nokia’s market cap neared $269 billion as cell phones first became ubiquitous, especially the company’s indestructible bricks.
Apple’s value at the time was gnat-like by comparison. But that tiny bug became a massive pest by 2007, when the iPhone launched and Apple’s stock market worth surpassed Nokia’s for the first time this century, never to look back.
During its first full year as a public company, Google hung even with Nokia but soon pulled away as Android took off. Meanwhile, Microsoft has lumbered along, recently pinning its mobile strategy to Nokia, a company now 28 times smaller than Steve Ballmer’s baby.
