Facebook- with quite possibly the biggest IPO tease in the history ofIPO’s is said to be filing tomorrow. At this point people are sayingits inevitable. And what does that mean for some of the big stakeinvestors at Facebook? – Well, it looks like the rich are about to getricer. Lets look at what people would make out with – Zuckerberg isestimated to own about 20% of the company, that would be worth roughly$20 billion dollars. Accel Parterns – the first venture capital fundto invest in Facebook – sold part of its stake, but still has a 10% ofthe pie, that’s about $10 billion dollars. Greylock – anotherinvestment firm 1.5 billion, again, these are are of course allestimates. Co founder Dustin Moscovitz slated for 5 billion. PeterThiel of Paypal, his stake estimated at 2.3 billion. Yuri Millner ofRussias Digital Sky Technologies $4 billion. Bonos venture capitalfund, Elevation Partners 1.7 billion,Shawn Parker 3.4 billion. And don’t forget this will turn an estimated1000 employees at facebook – into millionaires. A lot of peoplelooking to get rich with this IPO. One potential downside forFacebook in this IPO is that they have been able to hire a lot of toptalent, hiring top people away from Apple and Google because they wereable to offer equity – and now that won’t be able to offer an equitystake to potential employees once they IPO, that could be a potentialchallenge Facebook will have to deal with in terms of attractingtalent in the future.
