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People Who Became Billionaire because of Facebook’s Shares

Facebook is going to cross 500 million users mark and company is of course playing in billions. But who are the billionaires because of the share holding in Facebook. Facebook started in 2004 and since then lot many things happened over there. Those many things made Facebook the most popular social networking platform. Who are the major share holders in Facebook and what is their worth value in Facebook holding? Of course the founder Mark Zuckerberg is holding the biggest part of share and most benefitted because of the popularity of the same but there are other people as well who became billionaire just because of Facebook.

1. Mark Zuckerberg : 24% of Facebook worth $5.5 billion

Mark Zuckerberg

2. Accel Partners – 10% worth $2.2 billion

Accel Partners

3. Digital Sky Technology – 10% worth $2.2 billion

Digital Sky Technology

4. Cofounder Dustin Moskovitz – 6% worth $1.3 billion

Dustin Moskovitz

5. Eduardo Saverin – 5% worth $1.1 billion

Eduardo Saverin

6. Sean Parker : 4% worth $880 million

Sean Parker

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There are people in millions as well. For example, Peter Thiel is holding 3% stack in Facebook which is worth $660 million. Now you can imagine what change can be done by creating a super online application like Facebook.

 

3 Responses to “People Who Became Billionaire because of Facebook’s Shares”
  1. Siau Hen says:

    I think FB will create more and more millionaire indirectly too in future. Those gaming/apps company rakes millions creating games and selling virtual stuffs, not to mentioned those dealing with internet marketing using Facebooks ads and it’s function.

    Nice post.

  2. peter says:

    who wants to give me 2 millions???
    :p

  3. sunder@catchd says:

    thanks for sharing this great info

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