Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Who is gotten rich off Facebook?

We all apperceive that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has become a multibillionaire from the amusing networking armpit he founded.

And we additionally apperceive that the Winklevoss twins got abounding millions of dollars in a adjustment afterwards claiming that Zuckerberg blanket their abstraction while all were accessory Harvard about a decade ago.

But who abroad is accepting a advantageous ride on the Facebook gravy train? A armpit alleged Who Owns Facebook? has aggregate a account of all Facebook shareholders and the amount of their pale in the company.

Here's a fractional account of Facebook shareholders, including the allotment of the aggregation they own and its value. All dollar abstracts are based on an $85 billion valuation.

Mark Zuckerberg (CEO, co-founder)

Stake: 24%

Value: $20.4 billion

Accel Partners (early VC investor)

Stake: 15%

Value: $12.75 billion

Dustin Moskovitz (co-founder, above employee, Harvard acquaintance of Zuck)

Stake: 6%

Value: $5.1 billion

Digital Sky Technologies (corporate investor)

Stake: 5%

Value: $4.25 billion

Eduardo Saverin (co-founder, above employee, Harvard acquaintance of Zuck)

Stake: 5%

Value: $4.25 billion

Sean Parker (early advisor, aboriginal aggregation president)

Stake: 4%

Value: $3.4 billion

Peter Thiel (angel investor)

Stake: 3%

Value: $2.55 billion

Microsoft (corporate investor)

Stake: 1.6%

Value: $1.36 billion

Those top eight shareholders collectively own 63.6% of Facebook, so that leaves added than one-third of the aggregation for abounding added abate investors -- still affluence of abundance to go around. You can analysis Who OWNS Facebook? to see who abroad has a allotment of the action.

By the way, in accession to their $65 actor adjustment with Zuckerberg, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss anniversary own a .022% pale in the company, account $18.7 actor apiece.

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