Zuckerberg On Facebook's Employee Total: Small Is Good

During Thursday’s second-quarter earnings call, Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked about the size of the company when it came to number of employees and, while Facebook is expanding, he expressed a preference for remaining lean and mean.

During Thursday’s second-quarter earnings call, Facebook Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked about the size of the company when it came to number of employees and, while Facebook is expanding, he expressed a preference for remaining lean and mean.

On the call, he said:

On your second question about the overall size of the company, we’ve always been significantly smaller per employee compared with the number of people who we serve in the world. So it’s really based into the company that we have to build systems and software that take this into account and leverage that employees we have.

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