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Facebook, the world's largest social network, filed last night, the initial public offering prospectus in stock, and declared that the attempt to recruit investors to $ 5 billion. The company did not detail the pricing of shares, but estimated its capital raised could reach $ 100 billion - an amount that will make the issue one of the world's largest technology, also in relation to the issuance of Google and other big companies.
Facebook founder is also a largest share of the company, according to the documents - with 28.4%. Major shareholders after Zuckerberg are Accel Partners and James Breyer with 11.4% each, Dustin Moskowitz, with 7.6%, and the Russian Global DST with 5.5%. The investment bank Goldman Sachs has less than 1%. 2.5% of the company belong known investor Peter wire, and other senior officials on the site except Zuckerberg, as COO Sheryl Sandberg, holding shares in a relatively insignificant amount Zuckerberg. If the offering will be $ 100 billion fortune of Zuckerberg, 27, will reach $ 28 billion, which ranks him fourth-richest American by Forbes, after Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison and before Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page '.
Prospectus shows that wages received Zuckerberg from Facebook in 2011 was relatively modest - a half million base salary, plus related payments of $ 900 thousand dollars. In 2013 asked Zuckerberg to settle, like Jobs, at a salary of one dollar.
Facebook also assessed the cost of the salaries of executives at the company. COO Sheryl Sandberg earned last year 30.8 million. David Abrsmn CFO earned $ 18.7 million, Mike Roper's Vice President of Engineering enjoys 24.7 million and Theodore Elliott Chief Secretary of the Company received a salary of $ 7 million. Important Please note that the base salaries of most senior Facebook was about 300 thousand dollars a year, but the options given to them raised the cost of the salaries.
Zuckerberg's share is too large
Analysts estimate that Facebook will become a public one after Zuckerberg's vote share will be approximately -56.9%, a matter which set off an alarm among investors. "Probably if Zuckerberg's share was smaller company Facebook's value was greater. Investors do not like to have a controlling company that takes the power of other shareholders," said Professor Steve Kaplan University of Chicago, an expert in raising capital.
Blog Gizmodo said that the fact that from now on Facebook must be accountable to its investors every quarter means the company management's ability to independently navigate her way will be reduced significantly. One of the problems with data provided by Facebook is the marked slowdown in its growth - it has 845 million users and it is unclear how many users refuse to use Facebook so she could muster.
Prospectus also revealed that India's largest number of users after the United States with 44 million registered subscribers. In third place is Indonesia with 43 million users.
