We can finally estimate how much Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow shareholders are worth.
The social network set the stock-price range for its IPO at $28 to $35, meaning it’s shooting for a valuation as high as $96 billion.
Here are the shareholders holding more than a $1 billion worth of stock at the upper end of the price range:
Mark Zuckerberg
Chairman and CEO
Shares: 533.8 million
Worth: $18.7 billion
“Zuck,” as he’s known to friends and family, launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room in 2004. Eight years later, at age 27, the hoodie-wearing college dropout is now one of the richest person in the world. He’ll be celebrating his birthday in style — he turns 28 on May 14.
- Bloomberg
- Jim Breyer
Accel Partners
Led by Partner Jim Breyer
Shares: 201.4 million
Worth: $7.1 billion
In one of the most storied bets by a venture-capital firm, Accel took a chance on Facebook in 2005 with a $12.7 million investment at a $93 million valuation. Mr. Breyer, 50, who also sits on the boards of Wal-Mart, Dell and News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, also kicked in $1 million of his own money.
- Associated Press
- Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz
Co-founder
Shares: 133.7 million
Worth: $4.7 billion
A college roommate of Mr. Zuckerberg and eight days younger, Mr. Moskovitz also dropped out of Harvard and moved to Palo Alto, Calif., to start up Facebook. He left the company in 2008 to launch Asana, maker of a Web-collaboration tool.
- Bloomberg
- Yuri Milner
DST Global
Led by Yuri Milner
Shares: 131.3 million
Worth: $4.6 billion
The 50-year-old Russian investor wooed Mr. Zuckerberg in 2009 with a major investment in the social network. Subsequent investments followed in Facebook, as well as in other high-profile Web start-ups such as Groupon, Twitter and Zynga.
- Bloomberg
- Sean Parker
Sean Parker
Investor, former President
Shares: 69.6 million
Worth: $2.4 billion
Characterized as a fast-talking, wheeler-dealer in “The Social Network,” Parker co-founded Napster and became Facebook’s first president after meeting Zuckerberg early on. He now works at venture fund The Founders Fund, and reunited with Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning to found Airtime.com.
- Reuters
Goldman Sachs
Investor
Shares: 65.9 million
Worth: $2.3 billion
The banker made waves in early 2011 when it engineered a $1.5 billion infusion for its non-U.S. clients at a $50 billion valuation. Despite this friendship, Goldman lost the coveted “lead left” underwriting position to Morgan Stanley, instead taking the No. 3 spot.
- Bloomberg
- Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel
Director
Shares: 44.7 million
Worth: $1.6 billion
The German-born Stanford University graduate is often called the “don” of the PayPal Mafia after co-founding the online payments company and selling it to eBay in 2002. Mr. Thiel, 44, became an angel investor as well as a hedge fund manager and wrote Mr. Zuckerberg a $500,000 check in 2004, as also noted in the movie, “The Social Network.”
- Bloomberg
- Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg
Chief Operating Officer
Shares: 41.2 million
Worth: $1.4 billion
Ms. Sandberg. 42, was hired from Google in 2008 to help Facebook build a profitable business and give more professional executive support to the young CEO. The Harvard graduate’s resume includes a stint as chief of staff for the Treasury Department under President Bill Clinton and board positions at Walt Disney and Starbucks.
COMMENTARY: Facebook, Zuck, social networks in general, and the Facebook IPO all piss me off, but I know that some of my blog readers think its super-cool to be a billionaire. So the above article is dedicated to you.
Courtesy of an article dated May 3, 2012 appearing in The Wall Street Journal
Hi Tommy toy. wow thanks for sharing the list of Facebook investors. Been looking for this for my research.
Posted by: arbitrage | 11/12/2012 at 12:59 AM