While Goldman Sachs might have tossed a pretty heavy sum of money at Facebook, that still didn’t amount to much. In fact, only about 4% of the company as a whole is owned between Goldman Sachs and its clients. So who owns the biggest chunk? Facebook’s staff, of course. Given the current valuation, a 30% ownership from Facebook’s staff means that they collectively hold around $15 billion. The rest of the numbers? An interesting chart from reface.me breaks it down for us:
![A qui appartient Facebook So Who Really Owns Facebook? [Chart]](http://cdn.thenextweb.com/files/2011/01/A-qui-appartient-Facebook.jpg "A qui appartient Facebook photo")
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Where is Accel Partners???
@Francua Flippe Good question, Francua. According to the source: Not specifically included in the infographic are Microsoft’s 1.6% stake, Hong Kong billionaire Li-Ka Shing’s 0.8%, TriplePoint Capital (though as a debt provider they own nothing), and Accel Partners’ investment.
LESS than 1% is STILL 400 million dollars.
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Microsoft ?
goldman sachs gets its money from fed reserve..which mean WE THE PPL FINANCE THEIR STAKE IN FACEBOOK…meaning (with sarcasm) that facebook may become “to big to fail”
Just to point out the glaringly obvious fact that everyone is missing – Elevation Partners is not Bono’s investment fund. It’s an investment fund that he joined – after it had launched. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevation_Partners
I didn’t remember from the book/movie that Eduardo Saverin walked away with as much as 5%.
the description of Sean Parker: Justin Timberlake’s character in the movie
:P
never imagined that Bono is a venture capitalist … and a very lucky one! :-)
Where’s Microsoft?
What is striking is how quickly “facts” about Facebook date. They have got to be on some record for being one of the fastest-changing companies. Here is a month-old summary on FB that is now in need of an update! http://blog.amoo.co.uk/2010/09/technology-venture-facebook.html Kudos to tech bloggers/journalists amootweets