Facebook Billionaires

Goldman Sachs clients are in the process of buying $2 billion worth of Facebook stock at a $50 billion valuation. The $50 billion valuation means lots of Facebook employees, ex-employees, investors and other stakeholders are, on paper, now billionaires.Once the Facebook inevitibe IPOs sometime this year, that paper wealth is going turn into spendable cash.


But who at Facebook owns how much stock? Lets take a look.


Mark Zuckerberg owns 24% of Facebook, worth $12 billion.


Accel Partners owns around 8% of Facebook, worth $4 billion


Digital Sky Technologies owns more than 10% of Facebook, worth at least $5 billion


Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, who is no longer with the company, owns 6%, worth $3 billion


Eduardo Saverin, a Facebook cofounder who once sued the company, owns 5%, worth $2.5 billion


Former Facebook president and Sean Parker, was forced to leave Facebook after being arrested for cocaine possession, owns 4 percent, worth $2 billion


Facebook's first outside investor, Peter Thiel, owns 3%, worth $1.5 billion


Greylock partners owns 1.5% worth $750 Million 

Meritech Capital Ventures owns ~1.5%, worth $750 million
Microsoft owns 1.3% of Facebook, worth $650 million
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing owns .75% of Facebook, worth $375 million
Giant ad agency Interpublic Group owns just less than .5%, worth $250 million
Early employees Adam D'Angelo, Matt Cohler, Jeff Rothschild, Chris Hughes and Owen Van Natta own less than 1%
Mark Pincus and Reid Hoffman, Facebook angel investors, and owners of an important social networking patent, own a chunk of Facebook stock
Western Technology Investments, which loaned Facebook $3.6 million during its early days, also bought $25,000 worth of equity in its first funding round.