Facebook IPO: A look at who's selling shares in the social network
5/18/2012
Flowers surround a sign outside of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Friday, May 18, 2012. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell inside Facebook headquarters. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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Facebook founder, Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, center, applauds at the opening bell of the Nasdaq stock market from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
NEW YORK -- Facebook Inc. sold 180 million of its shares in its initial public stock offering. Another 241.2 million came from existing stockholders, including the company's earliest investors and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebook's single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. And he will control the company with 56 percent of its voting stock.
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The IPO sold at $38 per share, generating $6.8 billion for Facebook and $9.2 billion, collectively, for existing stockholders.
Here's a look at early Facebook Inc. investors who sold stock in the IPO, how much money they gained and how many shares they still own.
— Mark Zuckerberg
Number of shares being offered: 30.2 million
Value: $1.15 billion
Number of shares still owned: 503.6 million
— James Breyer and Accel Partners, where he's a partner
Year invested in Facebook: 2005
Number of shares being offered: 49 million
Value: $1.86 billion
Number of shares still owned: 152.3 million
— Peter Thiel, managing partner at The Founders Fund and PayPal co-founder
Year invested in Facebook: 2004
Number of shares being offered: 16.8 million
Value: $640 million
Number of shares still owned: 27.9 million
— DST Global Ltd. and affiliates, a London-based, Russian-founded investment firm focused on Internet companies and founded by Yuri Milner
Year invested in Facebook: 2009 and late 2010
Number of shares being offered: 45.7 million
Value: $1.74 billion
Number of shares still owned: 85.6 million
— Goldman Sachs and affiliates, investment bank and one of the IPO's underwriters
Year invested in Facebook: 2011
Number of shares being offered: 28.7 million
Value: $1.09 billion
Number of shares still owned: 37.3 million
— Elevation Partners, private equity firm focused on media and technology and affiliates
Year invested in Facebook: Undisclosed
Number of shares being offered: 4.6 million
Value: $176 million
Number of shares still owned: 35.5 million
— Greylock Partners, Silicon Valley venture capital firm and affiliates
Year invested in Facebook: 2006
Number of shares being offered: 7.6 million
Value: $289 million
Number of shares still owned: 29 million
— Mail.ru Group Ltd., Russian Internet company
Year invested in Facebook: 2009
Number of shares being offered: 19.6 million
Value: $745 million
Number of shares still owned: 36.8 million
— Mark Pincus, Zynga Inc. CEO
Year invested in Facebook: 2004
Number of shares being offered: 1 million
Value: $38 million
Number of shares still owned: 4.3 million
— Meritech Capital Partners, venture capital firm focused on late-stage investments
Year invested in Facebook: 2006
Number of shares being offered: 7 million
Value: $266 million
Number of shares still owned: 33.4 million
— Microsoft Corp.
Year invested in Facebook: 2007
Number of shares being offered: 6.6 million
Value: $249 million
Number of shares still owned: 26.2 million
— Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn Corp. and affiliates
Year invested in Facebook: 2004
Number of shares being offered: 942,784
Value: $36 million
Number of shares still owned: 3.8 million
— Tiger Global Management, New York-based investment firm
Year invested in Facebook: Undisclosed
Number of shares being offered: 23.4 million
Value: $889 million
Number of shares still owned: 30.4 million
— Other, smaller stockholders are offering another 70,504 shares.
Value: $2.7 million
Source: Facebook and Associated Press calculations