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Who Owns Facebook? The Definitive Who's Who Guide to Facebook Wealth

62 points by angadsg 15y ago

thinkcomp 15y ago
Well, at least this particular article is transparent about the worship of wealth going on. "When you're rich, they think you really know." --Tevye, "If I Were A Rich Man," Fiddler on the Roof
angadsg 15y ago
Cameron Winklevoss Status: Enemy Facebook stake: .022%
kloncks 15y ago
How can one find out the percents owned in a public company? For example, can anyone tell me how I'd find out how much O Omidyar owns of eBay? Or, where I could find such information for public companies?
- rwmj 15y ago
  He owns 142,366,408 shares of eBay according to: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=EBAY+Major+Holders http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=EBAY+Major+Holders I can't currently find the number of shares outstanding in eBay, but I'm sure it's somewhere under that Yahoo page. Edit: found it: 1.30B shares so he owns around 11%. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=EBAY http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=EBAY Transactions made by insiders are also quite interesting: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=EBAY http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=EBAY
  - kloncks 15y ago
    Transactions are really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
- joelhaus 15y ago
  Schedule 13D is an SEC filing required when anyone takes an ownership stake over 5%, Form 5 for an ownership stake over 10%. The Edgar database makes this information available for free to the public: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
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DilipJ 15y ago
This list is a testament to the importance of networks for startups.
rothschild 15y ago
No surprise that the list of Facebook's owners consists mostly of Jewish people.
reso 15y ago
Its great to see so many employees on that list. No one can say the early-birds didn't get their share.
- vaksel 15y ago
  not really. Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, Saverin, Hughes were all founders. The rest were C-level executives, most of which were brought on later through connections. The only real employee is Callahan, which owns .08% of the company...and it's very telling that there are no other rank and file employees on the list. And .08% is peanuts, if you were a programmer in a company that got bought for 100 million, your stake would get you a grand total of $80,000.
  - karzeem 15y ago
    The ownership percentages listed on the site only sum to 72.669%, so there's a lot of stock not accounted for. I'd imagine that there are lots of relatively low-profile employees with 7-8 figure stakes of that dark 27.331%.
    - rokhayakebe 15y ago
      I think I read in different places that the option pool for a startup is usually around 10-15%. So assuming those guys on the list are not part of it, and FB allocated half of it to employees, that is nearly 4B (at a 80B valuation). If you split that evenly between 2000 employees that is $2M per employee. Ok, I know my math gots to be wrong. Can someone help?
      - reso 15y ago
        Actually, that's not too far off. If you were hired pre-2010 your stock is probably worth > $1 million by now. That goes up by some constant multiple for every year previous to that.
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jc123 15y ago
In my opinion, we'll have to wait for the definitive guide to Facebook wealth: Facebook S-1 when they eventually file for IPO.
ebaysucks 15y ago
Is Jeff Rotschild a member of the (in)famous Rotschild family that owns large interests in international banking?
- Empedocles99 15y ago
  Are you referring to the "Rothschild" family?
joe_the_user 15y ago
"Russian Internet holding company, Digital Sky, grabbed 1.96% of Facebook stock in May of 2009 when it spent $200 million at a $10 billion valuation. Digital Sky, which is largely backed by a wealthy Russian oligarch, is the owner of Facebook clone VKontakte, the largest social network in Russia." And remember an "oligarch" mean essentially a criminal who used his connections to loot the wealth of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. What is primary goal of such a criminal? Sound investing ... or any investment that gets his money out of Russia?
postit 15y ago
No one listen to the same artist over and over for the rest of their lives, facebook is living its hype moment what's great, see what happened to many internet companies. Nobody rules forever. If Mark could build facebook with US$25K I don't imagine what he can do with U$20.4Bi, so Mr Zuck sell those stake right now.
- jcitme 15y ago
  Still, if it stays good at what it does and maybe branches out a little, it might stay afloat. See: amazon.

62 points by angadsg 15y ago

Well, at least this particular article is transparent about the worship of wealth going on. "When you're rich, they think you really know." --Tevye, "If I Were A Rich Man," Fiddler on the Roof

angadsg 15y ago

Cameron Winklevoss Status: Enemy Facebook stake: .022%

kloncks 15y ago

How can one find out the percents owned in a public company? For example, can anyone tell me how I'd find out how much O Omidyar owns of eBay? Or, where I could find such information for public companies?

rwmj 15y ago
He owns 142,366,408 shares of eBay according to: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=EBAY+Major+Holders http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=EBAY+Major+Holders I can't currently find the number of shares outstanding in eBay, but I'm sure it's somewhere under that Yahoo page. Edit: found it: 1.30B shares so he owns around 11%. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=EBAY http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=EBAY Transactions made by insiders are also quite interesting: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=EBAY http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=EBAY
- kloncks 15y ago
  Transactions are really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
joelhaus 15y ago
Schedule 13D is an SEC filing required when anyone takes an ownership stake over 5%, Form 5 for an ownership stake over 10%. The Edgar database makes this information available for free to the public: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

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DilipJ 15y ago

This list is a testament to the importance of networks for startups.

rothschild 15y ago

No surprise that the list of Facebook's owners consists mostly of Jewish people.

reso 15y ago

Its great to see so many employees on that list. No one can say the early-birds didn't get their share.

vaksel 15y ago
not really. Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, Saverin, Hughes were all founders. The rest were C-level executives, most of which were brought on later through connections. The only real employee is Callahan, which owns .08% of the company...and it's very telling that there are no other rank and file employees on the list. And .08% is peanuts, if you were a programmer in a company that got bought for 100 million, your stake would get you a grand total of $80,000.
- karzeem 15y ago
  The ownership percentages listed on the site only sum to 72.669%, so there's a lot of stock not accounted for. I'd imagine that there are lots of relatively low-profile employees with 7-8 figure stakes of that dark 27.331%.
  - rokhayakebe 15y ago
    I think I read in different places that the option pool for a startup is usually around 10-15%. So assuming those guys on the list are not part of it, and FB allocated half of it to employees, that is nearly 4B (at a 80B valuation). If you split that evenly between 2000 employees that is $2M per employee. Ok, I know my math gots to be wrong. Can someone help?
    - reso 15y ago
      Actually, that's not too far off. If you were hired pre-2010 your stock is probably worth > $1 million by now. That goes up by some constant multiple for every year previous to that.
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jc123 15y ago

In my opinion, we'll have to wait for the definitive guide to Facebook wealth: Facebook S-1 when they eventually file for IPO.

ebaysucks 15y ago

Is Jeff Rotschild a member of the (in)famous Rotschild family that owns large interests in international banking?

Empedocles99 15y ago
Are you referring to the "Rothschild" family?

joe_the_user 15y ago

"Russian Internet holding company, Digital Sky, grabbed 1.96% of Facebook stock in May of 2009 when it spent $200 million at a $10 billion valuation. Digital Sky, which is largely backed by a wealthy Russian oligarch, is the owner of Facebook clone VKontakte, the largest social network in Russia." And remember an "oligarch" mean essentially a criminal who used his connections to loot the wealth of the former Soviet Union in the 1990s. What is primary goal of such a criminal? Sound investing ... or any investment that gets his money out of Russia?

postit 15y ago

No one listen to the same artist over and over for the rest of their lives, facebook is living its hype moment what's great, see what happened to many internet companies. Nobody rules forever. If Mark could build facebook with US$25K I don't imagine what he can do with U$20.4Bi, so Mr Zuck sell those stake right now.

jcitme 15y ago
Still, if it stays good at what it does and maybe branches out a little, it might stay afloat. See: amazon.