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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/110.gifThe US Securities and Exchange Commission's Form S-1, filled out by Facebook Inc. The social networking giant has lodged documents for a public floatation which will raise at least $5 billion for the Californian company. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/22.gifFacebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg owns 28.4 per cent or some 533.8 million shares. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/32.gifFacebook's first outside investor, entrepreneur and co-founder of PayPal Peter Thiel, led a $500,000 investment in Facebook in late 2004. He has 44.7 million shares that could be worth $2.4 billion. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/Reuters
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/42.gifDustin Moskovitz, Zuckerberg's college roommate, fellow Harvard dropout and company co-founder, holds 133.8 million shares or 7.6 per cent. Photograph: Kimberly White/Getty Images
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/52.gifSheryl Sandberg, the company's chief operating officer, holds 1.9 million shares, about 0.1 per cent of the company. But she may ultimately collect 38.1 million additional shares, according to the filing, making her one of the richest in a tiny club of Silicon Valley women who are billionaires. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/62.gifAccel Partners, whose principal partner Jim Breyer, invested in the startup seven years ago, holds 201.4 million shares. Accel could have a thousandfold return on its investment. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/72.gifNetflix chief executive Reed Hastings has served on Facebook’s board since 2011 and holds some 20,000 restricted stock units. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/82.gifElevation Partners, the venture capital firm of U2 frontman Bono, paid $120 million for a chunk of Facebook's shares in 2010 and could receive a payout that would help mask less sage investments in Palm and Forbes. Photograph : Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/92.gifAccording to the company's filing, Zuckerberg's father Ed, a New York dentist, was awarded 2 million shares of stock "in satisfaction of funds provided for our initial working capital." Seen here with the rest of the Zuckerberg family at the Palo Alto office in 2005. Mark seated and standing from left sisters Randi, Arielle, mother Karen and father Ed. Photograph: Sherry Tesler/The New York Times
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/102.gifDST Global, the investment firm led by the Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, owns a 6.9 per cent stake in the company. It bought the bulk of its shares from 2009 to 2011 at valuations of $10 billion to $50 billion. Photograph: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/112.gifGraffiti artist David Choe who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network's first headquarters made a smart bet as the shares are expected to be worth upward of $200 million. Photograph: Ramin Talaie/Bloomberg News
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/122.gifDavid A Ebersman, Facebook's chief financial officer, who was hired in 2009, has more than 7 million in unvested shares. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/132.gifNetscape's founder Marc Andreessen, now a Silicon Valley venture capitalist invested early in Facebook and now holds 3.6 million shares worth nearly $200 million. Photograph: Reuters
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/142.gifTyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the Olympic-rowing duo, Harvard graduates and former business partners of Zuckerberg, own about 1.2 million shares as part of their settlement with the company. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/152.gifCompany's estranged co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, who provided some of the initial financing and later sued the company for cutting his stake, managed to cut an even larger settlement, worth 5 per cent of the company. He has since sold a large block of his shares on the secondary market. Neither are Saverin nor the Winklevoss twins are mentioned in the filing. Photograph: Bloomberg
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Who owns Facebook
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/162.gifDuring Facebook's early years, the company granted valuable options to about 250 employees, according to two former senior Facebook officials with knowledge of the matter. This club includes some of the largest stock packages. In 2007, the company stopped issuing options and switched to restricted stock units. Still, a large number of employees hired after 2007 have millions in shares today. Photograph: James Best Jr/The New York Times
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Facebook by the numbers
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/173.gifThe Hacker Way street sign is seen at the entrance to the company’s headquarters in California. According to Facebook there are 845 million active users of the site, with some 483 million logging on every day. The average user has 130 friends. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Facebook by the numbers
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/182.gifSome 250 million photos are uploaded each day and 70 languages are used on the site. Photograph: Michael Dalder/Reuters
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Facebook by the numbers
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/191.gifAnd 350 million users access Facebook on a mobile device with 20 million Facebook apps installed each day. Over 3,000 people are employed by the company. A sketch of founder Mark Zuckerberg on a wall at the new headquarters in California. Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
