Per-user market valuation differs dramatically across major platforms.

Evidence

Using figures from 2017, calculations were performed by dividing the market capitalization (the market value of a company’s outstanding shares) by the number of users. Market caps and approximate user numbers on December 29, 2017, were as follows: Alphabet—731.90B, 2B users; Facebook—512.76B, 2.2B users; and Alibaba—$727.04B, 488M users. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 798

Categorization

• SHARE: Per-user market values: Alphabet ~366/user, Alibaba ~1,490/user, Facebook ~$233/user — a striking divergence worth sharing with someone tracking platform economics.
• XREF: connects to: Corporate data-as-asset rhetoric reframes untapped user data as a trillion-dollar revenue source — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 506

Broader Connections

• Corporate data-as-asset rhetoric reframes untapped user data as a trillion-dollar revenue source #expands (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 506