5 Most Valuable Bootstrapped Companies In The World

4. Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META)

Market Value as of November 25th, 2022: $295 billion

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the world’s largest social media companies. It owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) has its humble beginnings in the dormitories of Harvard University. Set up in 2003, the company’s Facebook platform was initially dubbed FaceMash and limited to being a picture comparison site. Later on, it was expanded to be called TheFacebook, taking its name from college student directories. Facebook was founded when Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin invested $2,000 into the site, and the rest is history.

177 of the 920 hedge funds polled by Insider Monkey during Q3 2022 had invested in Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) .

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META)’s largest investor is Ken Fisher’s Fisher Asset Management which owns 11.8 million shares that are worth $1.6 billion.

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