Check Out What Facebook's Ad Sales Deck Looked Liked Way Back In 2005

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Facebook turned 10 earlier this year. With over 1 billion users, it offers advertisers access to an enormous audience that spends more than 6 hours and 35 minutes on the site per month. Every day, Facebook users make 3.2 billion "comments" or "likes."

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But it didn't always have that kind of reach.

Kevin Colleran, current General Catalyst partner and one of Facebook's original 10 employees, and its first advertising salesperson, tweeted out a Facebook advertising sales deck from 2005. Back then, "TheFacebook" had only 1.9 million monthly users. Nonetheless, it was still able to charge a $7 CPM (cost per thousand views), which isn't bad. Take a look:

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