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All wealth figures are estimates. This post confirms my ownership of the site and that this site adheres to Google AdSense program policies and Terms and Conditions: Also check out feature articles on hot technology startups. Wow-- It finally happened! Facebook is now a publicly traded company.
This site was created in May of to provide readers a breakdown of Facebook's top shareholders while it was privately-held. Now that shares are in the public markets, ownership will become significantly more expansive. Nevertheless, our profiles remain valid, and the percentages will likely remain decent approximations of ownership for most of If you like this kind of information, take a look at our site profiling Celebrity Venture Capitalists.
Palo Alto, CA Education: Two years at Harvard University Facebook stake: Raised in Dobbs Ferry, NY, Zuckerberg began writing software while in middle school and by the end of high school, he had co-written a music recommendation program called Synapse Media Player, which Microsoft and AOL reportedly offered Zuckerberg a million dollars to further develop.
After disciplinary action from the school's administration, Zuckerberg shut down Facemash and began "thefacebook," initially only available to Harvard students.
Zuckerberg has since defended the site in intellectual property disputes and spurned buyout offers from Viacom, Yahoo! The 27 year old CEO owns Venture Capital Investor Founded: Palo Alto, CA Facebook stake: Breyer, a managing partner at Accel, was hot for a big deal to impress Accel's less than enthusiastic limited partners. Efrusy's due diligence uncovered Stanford users of Facebook who not only used the website, but literally obsessed over it, even missing their classes to "poke" friends.
San Francisco, CA Education: Man, was this guy lucky to be Mark Zuckerberg's roommate? Currently the youngest U. Born in Washington D. Moskovitz was an economics major before dropping out of college to relocate to Palo Alto, CA to work on Facebook full-time. Credited as both Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, Moskovitz led the technical staff, oversaw the major architecture of the site, and was responsible for the company's mobile strategy and development.
He left Facebook in to start Asana , a company that builds project management software to help companies collaborate. Moskovitz was able to garner the title of "United States Youngest Billionaire" over Mark Zuckerberg because he is eight days younger than his fellow co-founder. Digital Sky Technologies Status: Moscow, London Facebook stake: Russian Internet holding company, Digital Sky , grabbed 1.
Digital Sky, which is largely backed by a wealthy Russian oligarch, is the owner of Facebook clone VKontakte, the largest social network in Russia. Under the direction of Managing Partner, Yuri Milner pictured , Digital Sky has also amassed sizeable positions in Zynga and Groupon , and is reportedly in talks to buy a substantial stake in Twitter. DST followed its initial stake in Facebook with large block purchases of stock from existing Facebook shareholders and employees.
Acting as the business partner of "The Facebook," in , Saverin concentrated on developing advertiser relationships while Zuckerberg focused on product development. When Facebook moved its operations to Palo Alto and Sean Parker gained more influence, Saverin ended up on the losing side of a power struggle. In , Saverin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B.
However, as his name does not appear in the S-1 filing as a five percent owner, it's obvious that he's trimmed back his holdings substantially. Currently living in Singapore. Saverin has been spreading his bucks around and is a major investor in a new social network called Qwiki , as well as Jumio , an online and mobile payment product. Part tech genius, part bad-boy, Sean Parker has displayed uncanny foresight and comprehension of Internet business strategy. However, his fondness for hard partying and run-ins with the law have also left him as the odd-man out in business ventures.
At the age of 16, Parker's Virginia home was raided by the FBI when he was caught hacking systems of Fortune companies. In , at the age of 19, he co-founded the file sharing and wrong-side-of -copyright-law music service, Napster.
At a trendy Chinese restaurant in New York in , Parker met Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and became a mentor and advisor to the rising entrepreneur.
Much like Napster, Parker was able to foresee Facebook's success and societal contributions only months into its inception. Acting as the company's first President, Parker negotiated a deal with Facebook's first investors Peter Thiel and Accel Partners, giving Zuckerberg absolute control of the board of directors.
Ousted from Facebook in for a drug-related arrest, Parker went on to become Managing Partner of Founders Fund , a San Francisco-based venture capital shop. Parker still acts as an informal advisor to Zuckerberg. JD, Stanford University Facebook stake: Initially structured as a loan, the financing later converted to a Thiel maintains a seat on Facebook's board of directors and, in addition, serves as president of Clarium Capital , a hedge fund, and is a Managing Partner of VC firm, The Founders Fund.
Sheryl Sandberg has served as the chief operating officer of Facebook since She is currently sitting on nearly 1.
But the real serious dinero will come down the road as nearly 40 million shares of restricted stock will vest. The one-time chief of staff for Larry Summers at the U. Seattle, WA Facebook stake: Beaten in search by Google, and wary of Google's acquisitions in web video YouTube and banner advertising Doubleclick , Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pictured was willing to do whatever necessary to get in bed with Facebook, and seal the Seattle software goliath's foray into Web 2.
MSFT opted for a complicated arrangement that included an advertising partnership and a small stake in the social network. Terms also precluded Google from making an investment in Facebook. Meritech Capital Partners also participated in the financing along with existing investors Peter Thiel and Accel, who chipped in additional funds. Menlo Park, CA Facebook stake: Once pilloried with the moniker "world's dumbest VC investor," Elevation Partners may shut up some of its critics with its stealthy purchases of Facebook stock.
Using markets designed to provide liquidity for privately-held shares, Elevation has reportedly cobbled together a 7. Not too shabby for the firm whose high-profile investments in Palm and Forbes Magazine deflated rather than elevated. At the urging of an Associate Kevin Efrusy , Jim Breyer aggressively pursued an early stage stake in Facebook in Breyer has been a lead or co-lead investor in over thirty consumer internet, media, and technology companies that have completed public offerings or successful mergers.
In August, , Fortune Magazine named him one of the 10 smartest people in technology, and "the smartest investor in technology. Breyer's personal holdings in Facebook are New York, NY Facebook stake: The financing created controversy as it appeared to be a way for Facebook to sidestep U.
Facebook stated it will begin disclosing financial information, or stage an initial public offering, by April New York, NY Education: BA, Harvard University Facebook stake: Known amongst Facebook insiders as "The Empath" for his ability to understand people, co-founder Chris Hughes was the spokesman for the social networking site. Unlike his fellow co-founders, Hughes did not write code or generate advertising sales.
Instead, his focus was on the user, making him part customer service representative, part public relations specialist. In , Hughes left Facebook to serve as the coordinator of online organizing for Barack Obama's presidential campaign utilizing My. Hong Kong Facebook stake: Can you hear the cash register go "Ka-Ching? Ka-shing began his career at the age of 15 by working at a plastics trading company where he reportedly worked 16 hours a day.
In , he started his own company, Cheung Kong Industries, and went from manufacturing plastics to real estate investment. BA, Yale University Facebook stake: Former Vice President of Product Management, Matt Cohler was the first external executive hire at Facebook and also one of the first five employees to be hired by the company's founders.
Cohler joined Facebook in during the company's critical growth period and helped drive Facebook's strategy, organizational growth and product direction. Cohler's decision to leave Facebook came shortly after the departure of co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Adam D'Angelo, and according to some reports, has left speculation about the changing dynamic and culture of the company.
In , Rothschild was brought in as a part-time consultant by Accel Partners colleague Kevin Efrusy, who had spearheaded the Facebook deal.
However, Zuckerberg convinced the retiree to take a full-time position with the company. Concerned that Facebook would undergo a server crash similar to social networking pioneer Friendster, Zuckerberg sought to utilize Rothschild's deep knowledge of data centers to avoid such a problem.
Since , Rothschild has been active in the areas of storage management, system software, and networking. Rothschild is now the Vice President of Technology, leading the engineering team and focusing on scalability and performance. He is concurrently a Consulting Partner at Accel Partners , the first venture capital firm to invest in Facebook. Seriously-- does this guy look old enough to even drive?
Initially, D'Angelo worked on the first "app" for Facebook called Wirehog, a peer-to-peer file sharing program. He later went on to become Chief Technology Officer where he led the Platform Development and Data teams, and oversaw new product design and architecture.
D'Angelo maintained the CTO position for two years before leaving in June to co-found Quora , an online database of information organized by questions and answers created by users. Owen Van Natta Status: Owen Van Natta joined the Facebook team in as Chief Operating Officer where he focused on revenue operations, business development, and strategic partnerships.
According to Business Insider. Apparently seeking to be not just another mutual fund company, venerable Baltimore investor T.