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9 People who made a Fortune out of Facebook

1. Mark Zuckerberg
Everyone know Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook. He is as famous as Facebook itself due to the book 'The Accidental Billionaires' and movie 'The Social Network'. He first started a website called 'facemash.com' where you can vote the girls HOT or NOT, which got him 22K hits in 4 hours and he also got kicked out from Facebook for 6 months on disciplinary grounds. Then he shutdown facemash and worked on a site named 'thefacebook' which brought him here.
Facebook stake: 28%
Value               : $24 billion

With Mark's money you could buy:
- 5,333 Lamborghini Veneno cars
- 558 Gulfstream G550 private jets

2. Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Saverin is Mark's dorm mate in Harvard. He is the first CFO of the company for his investment of $19,000 to set up the website. At the beginning when they started up they thought of splitting profits 70-30. But later both their shares diluted down due to new investments. He even filed a case against Mark and there was a settlement afterwards. He still remains as the co-founder of Facebook on its masthead.
Facebook stake: 4%
Value               : $3.5 billion

With Eduardo's money you can buy:
- 777 Lamborghini Veneno cars
- 80 Gulfstream G550 private jets

3. Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is another co-founder of Facebook. I wonder was this guy lucky to be Mark's roommate? He is just 8 days younger than Mark and slated as the youngest billionaire in the world. Dustin led the technical staff of facebook and looked after the major architecture of the site. He left Facebook in 2008 and founder companies like Path & Asana.
Facebook stake: 7.6%
Value               : $6.5 billion

With Dustin's money you can buy:
- 1,444 Lamborghini Veneno cars
- 152 Gulfstream G550 private jets

4. Sean Parker
At the age of 16, Parker's Virginia home was raided by the FBI when he was caught hacking systems of Fortune 500 companies. In 1999, at the age of 19, he co-founded the file sharing music service, Napster. At a trendy Chinese restaurant in New York in 2004, Parker met Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and became a mentor and advisor to the rising entrepreneur.Acting as the company's first President, Parker negotiated a deal with Facebook's first investors Peter Thiel and Accel Partners, giving Zuckerberg absolute control of the board of directors.
Facebook stake: 4%
Value               : $3.5 billion

With Sean's money you can buy:
- 777 Lamborghini Veneno cars
- 70 Gulfstream G550 private jets

5. Accel
Jim Breyer offered Mark a $400 wine bottle at a posh restaurant in Silicon Valley to seal the deal for Accel Partners. They helped in early stage financing of Facebook and helped them in setting up their first office at Palo Alto.
Facebook stake: 10%
Value:              : $8.5 billion

With Accel's money you can buy:
- 1888 Lamborghini Veneno cars
- 228 Gulfstream G550 private jets

6. Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is the first significant outside investor for Facebook when he put up $500,000 in the company. First structured as a loan but later transformed into 2.5% share in Facebook and he is even a member of the board of directors at Facebook. He also funded most innovative startups of the last decade like Youtube, Linkedin and Paypal.
Facebook stake: 2.5%
Value               : $2.13 billion

With Thiel's money you can buy:
- 473 Lamborghini Veneno cars
- 50 Gulfstream G550 private jets

7. Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl SAndberg who served as Vice President o Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, left her position there after a series of negotiations with Mark. Though her base salary of $300K is modest but by share vest her share values got increased to $1.8 billion dollars.
Facebook stake: 0.1%
Value               :  $1.8 billion after shares vest

With Sandberg's money you can buy:
- 400 Lamborghini Veneno cars
- 36 Gulfstream G550 private jets

8. David Choe
David Choe is a graffiti artist who painted the walls of the first Facebook office. Mark gave him offer to whether to take his pay of $300K or take share in Facebook. Brilliant lad took the share in Facebook and his share values at nearly $200 million now.

Facebook stake: 0.25%
Value               : $200 million

9. Winklevoss Twins & Divya Narendra
Cameroon Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra are the three students at Harvard. They approached Mark after 'facemash' and asked him to join their project 'HarvardConnect'. Mark agreed to work with them and later started to code Facebook. They later filed a complaint that Mark have stolen their idea for Facebook. The matter was settled for some fancy amount and each of them were give 0.02% in Facebook.

Facebook stake: 0.02%(each)
Value               : $18.7 million(each)  

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