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dlivingston on Oct 30, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Juul Shipped At Least 1M Contaminated Pods, New La...

For what it's worth, Mark wrote those comments in 2004, shortly after "The Facebook" was created. They didn't start monetizing until late 2007 [0].

[0]: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2007/11/facebook-unveils-facebo...

shanemlk on Oct 30, 2019 [–]

What you have linked to is the consolidated Facebook Ads platform, but they started running ads known as Facebook Flyers around April of 2004. Revenue was $382,000 in 2004.

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