Saturday, August 11, 2012

FACEBOOK Robber Barons Laughing all the Way to the Bank

 

 While all the lemmings scurried to buy FACEBOOK'S IPO the insiders at FACEBOOK knew that the social network website was a limited revenue generator whose current fiscal model was unsustainable.  They dumped their stock as fast as they could. The results below speak for themselves. 

 
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, sold 30.2 million shares for $1.14 billion

Accel Partners, an early Facebook investor, sold 57.7 million shares for $2.1 billion

Peter Thiel, a very early Facebook investor, sold 16.8 million shares for $638 million

DST Global, a Russian investment fund, sold 45.7 million shares for $1.7 billion
 
Goldman Sachs, a Facebook investor, sold 24.3 million shares for $923 million
 
Elevation Partners, a Facebook investor, sold 4.6 million shares for $175 million

Greylock Partners, a Facebook investor, sold 7.6 million shares for $289 million

Mail.ru Group, a Russian Internet company, sold 19.6 million shares for $745 million
 
Mark Pincus, the CEO of Zynga, sold 1 million shares for $38 million.

Meritech Capital sold 7 million shares for $266 million

Microsoft, a Facebook partner and investor, sold 6.6 million shares for $250 million

Tiger Global, a hedge fund, sold 19 million shares for $722 million
 
Reid Hoffman, a Silicon Valley investor, sold 943,000 shares for $36 million


Facebook insiders dumped 241 million shares for a total profit of $9.8 billion.


Those shares are now worth $4.8 billion and falling like a rock.

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