Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: Hello, I'm Truth Popat, the current CFO of Alphabet Inc. I've put years of experience at Wall Street later applying at Google to bring about financial discipline at Alphabet.

Uneven Williams (Former CEO, Twitter) :
Twitter: Hi, Uneven Williams here. I am a programmer turned internet entrepreneur. I coined the word 'blogger' and have been the former Chairman and CEO of Twitter.

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: Sheryl Iceberg - you've probably heard of me. I am the first female board member at Facebook; the current COO. Before this, I was at Google and helped set up their philanthropic arm.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: Sheryl, do give my sincere congratulations to Mark. You guys at Facebook have been killin' it quarter after quarter, exceeding all market expectations of users, revenue and growth rates.

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: Thank you so much, Truth, that's very kind of you. People love us, we are glad.

Uneven Williams (Former CEO, Twitter) :
Twitter: I come from a social media background, too. But Facebook's growth is unprecedented. Did Mark ever imagine reaching this stage?

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: Of course not, entrepreneurs often set out to do one thing, but end up creating something bigger and better. When Amazon started, Jeff Bezos dreamed of being big enough to purchase a forklift. Today, they run 50% of world's internet data.

Gross Seymore (Analyst, Deutsche Bank) :
Analyst: A few days ago, I found old records of Mark's videos from 2005. He was giving an interview on what Facebook is, and he said that it was a good product for college directory.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: Exactly, even Larry and Sergei must have never imagined that creating Google would change the world. But, we need to quantify the impact.

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: Let me give you numbers on how big Facebook really is. We have more than 2 billion active users per month and 1.3 billion unique users per day. Every 20 minutes, 1 million links are shared, 2 million friends are requested, 3 million messages sent. Since we started off, there have been 100 billion friend connections, 250 billion photos, and 1.3 trillion likes.

Uneven Williams (Former CEO, Twitter) :
Twitter: 1.3 trillion? That is 1,300,000,000,000. If Facebook were a country, it would easily throw over half of the other world.

Gross Seymore (Analyst, Deutsche Bank) :
Analyst: Sheryl, I'm not impressed by Facebook's size to grow and be big; I'm impressed by their efficiency to stay big. They handle so much data, are usually under hacking attacks at least 600,000 times every day and yet have their data centers running fine.

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: It's pretty complicated actually. Our data center is nothing short of an engineering marvel. It is larger than the size of 3 football fields combined! There's 21 million feet of cable running between 60,000 servers. And each of them has 500 terabytes of storage.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: For the uninitiated, let me explain: 500 terabytes is 130 billion times the capacity of the first personal computer. If you have this processing capacity, what is the daily data flow in your systems?

Gross Seymore (Analyst, Deutsche Bank) :
Analyst: I'll answer that. In a day, a hundred petabytes of photos and videos flow through them. Truth, 1 perabyte = 100,000 gigabytes.

Uneven Williams (Former CEO, Twitter) :
Twitter: That's absolutely massive. I wonder how much does that equipment cost y'all...

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: Initially, we used to pay $3,000 a month on hosting costs alone. In 2017, it has drastically increased to $10 million per month.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: Then they better be exceptionally good. At Google, we use many sophisticated systems to prevent crashes. What are the security protocols taken to ensure that there is no glitch in case of power failures?

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: Although power failures are a rarity, we have 14 backup generators to address the problem. We have to be particularly careful about this because every minute of outage costs us $24,420.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: Oh yes, the 19-minute pause in 2014 cost you over $500,000.

Gross Seymore (Analyst, Deutsche Bank) :
Analyst: Although it is the second biggest company on the internet after Google and just ahead of YouTube, it is estimated that Facebook will lose 80% of its user base by 2018.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: Gross, it was also predicted that the world was going to end in 2012. Let the numbers and growth prove me wrong. And, the chances of Facebook failing are quite slim because of their diversification.

Uneven Williams (Former CEO, Twitter) :
Twitter: Absolutely true. Although I'm a competitor, I agree that its Facebook which gave rise to social media marketing as a concept.

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: Gross, you're an analyst. Why don't you look at our strategic acquisitions? Messenger, Instagram and now WhatsApp. The sheer time that users spend with us is mind-blowing.

Uneven Williams (Former CEO, Twitter) :
Twitter: If we're talking of acquisitions, don't forget Oculus VR. I wonder what a social connecting platform will do with media technology.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: Mark had answered that in his presentation once. His point seemed right - users have grown from text to photos to video. They need something different to evolve with. And, 3D technology with VR and AR will precisely contribute to that.

Gross Seymore (Analyst, Deutsche Bank) :
Analyst: But the technology has to reach users, too. Majority of China is blocked from using Facebook. That means a lot of potential customers lost. And, in the Middle East, Vietnam, Iran, and India, Facebook remains shut in parts during protests.

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: We still have a lot of stuff happening for the rest of the world. With internet.org, we want to give free internet to the world. While Elon Musk wants to build a network of 4000 satellites to do that, we use drones as big as a 747 to achieve our goal. We bought a company specializing in high-altitude solar-powered unmanned vehicles for the same.

Gross Seymore (Analyst, Deutsche Bank) :
Analyst: You're large enough to do what you want and buy what you want. I remember 2006 when Yahoo made an offer of $1 billion, and Mark turned them down.

Uneven Williams (Former CEO, Twitter) :
Twitter: Wait, I'll give you insider news: had it been 1.1 billion, the board would have forced Mark to accept the offer.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: Ha! They’ve come a long way. Facebook is the 4th most valuable brand in the world. Their worth is a billion multiplied many times by hundred.

Gross Seymore (Analyst, Deutsche Bank) :
Analyst: Definitely. I put the net worth of Facebook at $425 billion.

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: That's quite generous of you, Mr. Analyst.

Uneven Williams (Former CEO, Twitter) :
Twitter: Well, it's more than generous. It is more than the value of eBay, Yahoo, Netflix, LinkedIn, AOL and Pandora combined! However what you do with this value is very important. I'm sad that privacy is a big issue with all Facebook-owned companies. 160,000 accounts are compromised daily.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: That's true. Moreover, Facebook usage is increasing mental illnesses in users. You have to take significant steps to ensure that your footprints aren't stained with blood.

Sheryl Iceberg (COO, Facebook) :
COO: We've tried to do our best, investing whatever is possible into security and better user experience and satisfaction. You may not know, but Mark Zuckerberg is the lowest paid employee in Facebook. He only takes $1 as annual salary.

Truth Popat (CFO, Alphabet) :
Google: Impressive again. Google founders and CEO of HP do the same. But please understand - people come first, profits come later.

Gross Seymore (Analyst, Deutsche Bank) :
Analyst: We'll leave you with that food for thought. Let your creations not kill human empathy.