He has outlined plans to increase the number of people working for the world's most popular social networking site from 1,000 to 1,500.
"No one else has been hiring," Mr Zuckerberg said. "It's been a great environment for us because the economy has helped out."
Facebook hit 200 million registered users in April this year and its revenues, according to Mr Zuckerberg, will grow by 70% this year.
Since its humble beginnings in his Harvard University room five years ago, Facebook has tried to stay above water financially, he said.
"The first servers that I had I rented for $85 (£51) a month," he explained.
"We'd put ads on the site and then when I had money to get another server, I'd get another."
The company has now received investments totalling more than £363m.
Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm, valued Facebook at £6bn and paid £120m for less than 2% of the company in May.
"We think of that mostly as a buffer," Mr Zuckerberg said.
"We didn't take that round of financing with any particular goal in mind."
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