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18 May, 2012

Facebook’s IPO: Who Got Rich

Facebook’s IPO: Who Got Rich
19/05/2012 by Todd Wasserman on Mashable

Mark Zuckerberg
Zuck, who owns 503.6 million shares, is now worth $19.14 billion, though his personal fortune surpassed the $20 billion mark several times.

Accel Partners/Jim Breyer
Breyer and Accel got a total of $7.7 billion, a nice payout, considering Accel only invested $12.2 million in Facebook in 2005, according to reports.
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Peter Thiel
Thiel's stake is now valued at $1.7 billion. A PayPal co-founder, Thiel was an early investor.
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Yuri Milner
Milner's firm DST Global Limited got $1.7 billion in cash in Friday's IPO and a paper value of $3.3 billion.
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Sheryl Sandberg
Sandberg didn't sell any shares Friday. She has a paper value of $72.2 million.
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Sean Parker
Parker also didn't sell any shares on Friday. His paper value of Facebook shares is now about $2.65 billion.

Eduardo Saverin
The estranged Facebook co-founder has an estimated net worth of $2.7 billion. He will also save about $67 million in taxes by renouncing his U.S. citizenship, according to estimates.

Greylock Partners
Greylock owns 1.5% of Facebook, a stake now worth bout $1.6 billion.
Image courtesy Greylock Partners.

Bono
No one knows what Bono will make from the IPO, but Elevation Partners, his investment firm, made about $1.5 billion.

David Choe
Choe, a graffiti artist who painted the walls of Facebook's first offices in Palo Alto, Calif., was paid in 3.77 million shares of the company,which are now worth $144.2 million.
OK, so Facebook’s IPO may have seemed like a lot of sound and fury for 23 cents, but there will still doubtlessly be some celebrating in Menlo Park Friday night.

That’s because a lot of Facebookers got fabulously rich on Friday. True, it probably would have been an even more festive occasion if the stock had hit the $54 that Twitter had predicted, but Facebook’s measly gain on its first day of trading was still worth $115.7 million to Mark Zuckerberg.

Here’s why Zuck and some other big Facebook investors still have cause to pop the Champagne.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, AUDINDesign




Source: Mashable

07 April, 2012

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Caught Wearing Google Glasses

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Caught Wearing Google Glasses
brin-google-glasses-600by Peter Pachal on Mashable

Looks like the Google Glasses are real after all. Google co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted wearing them in San Francisco by a prominent tech writer, and he even managed to snap a photo of the prototype specs.
Blogger Robert Scoble met up with Brin at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco and, seeing that Brin was wearing a pair of the freshly unveiled Google Glasses, took a photo of the two of them with his camera, which he promptly posted on Instagram and Twitter.
Scoble says Brin wouldn’t let him try on the sci-fi specs, which communicate with the wearer’s smartphone to relay information and turn the glasses into a futuristic heads-up display. However, he did say the glasses appeared to be very lightweight, and that they seemed to be flashing info to Brin as they talked. He also said they looked “self-contained,” not requiring other hardware (although a wireless connection to a phone wouldn’t be visible).

The Google Glasses, which the company officially unveiled Wednesday, have sharply divided the Internet. While many tech enthusiasts have praised Google for daring to make a useful and lightweight version of a mainstream heads-up display, detractors have pointed out the many potential pitfalls (such as user distraction) and how silly they could end up looking.
Still, with Brin wearing them in public, a final product may be coming sooner than later. Initial reports said the glasses would go on sale by the end of the year, but a Google spokesperson later told Mashable that was “extremely unlikely.” Scoble tweeted that the glasses were many months, if not years away from being“productized,” though it’s not clear if Brin said so or if it’s his own speculation.
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Image by Robert Scoble

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