If you like this kind of information, take a look at our site profiling Celebrity Venture Capitalists. Thanks for reading! Raised in Dobbs Ferry, NY, Zuckerberg began writing software while in middle school and by the end of high school, he had co-written a music recommendation program called Synapse Media Player, which Microsoft and AOL reportedly offered Zuckerberg a million dollars to further develop.
After disciplinary action from the school's administration, Zuckerberg shut down Facemash and began "thefacebook," initially only available to Harvard students. Zuckerberg has since defended the site in intellectual property disputes and spurned buyout offers from Viacom, Yahoo!
The 27 year old CEO owns Breyer, a managing partner at Accel, was hot for a big deal to impress Accel's less than enthusiastic limited partners. Efrusy's due diligence uncovered Stanford users of Facebook who not only used the website, but literally obsessed over it, even missing their classes to "poke" friends.
Man, was this guy lucky to be Mark Zuckerberg's roommate? Currently the youngest U. Born in Washington D. Moskovitz was an economics major before dropping out of college to relocate to Palo Alto, CA to work on Facebook full-time. Credited as both Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, Moskovitz led the technical staff, oversaw the major architecture of the site, and was responsible for the company's mobile strategy and development.
He left Facebook in to start Asana , a company that builds project management software to help companies collaborate. Moskovitz was able to garner the title of "United States Youngest Billionaire" over Mark Zuckerberg because he is eight days younger than his fellow co-founder.
Russian Internet holding company, Digital Sky , grabbed 1. Digital Sky, which is largely backed by a wealthy Russian oligarch, is the owner of Facebook clone VKontakte, the largest social network in Russia. Under the direction of Managing Partner, Yuri Milner pictured , Digital Sky has also amassed sizeable positions in Zynga and Groupon , and is reportedly in talks to buy a substantial stake in Twitter.
DST followed its initial stake in Facebook with large block purchases of stock from existing Facebook shareholders and employees. Acting as the business partner of "The Facebook," in , Saverin concentrated on developing advertiser relationships while Zuckerberg focused on product development.
When Facebook moved its operations to Palo Alto and Sean Parker gained more influence, Saverin ended up on the losing side of a power struggle. In , Saverin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a B. However, as his name does not appear in the S-1 filing as a five percent owner, it's obvious that he's trimmed back his holdings substantially.
Currently living in Singapore. Saverin has been spreading his bucks around and is a major investor in a new social network called Qwiki , as well as Jumio , an online and mobile payment product. Part tech genius, part bad-boy, Sean Parker has displayed uncanny foresight and comprehension of Internet business strategy.
However, his fondness for hard partying and run-ins with the law have also left him as the odd-man out in business ventures. At the age of 16, Parker's Virginia home was raided by the FBI when he was caught hacking systems of Fortune companies.
In , at the age of 19, he co-founded the file sharing and wrong-side-of -copyright-law music service, Napster. At a trendy Chinese restaurant in New York in , Parker met Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and became a mentor and advisor to the rising entrepreneur.
Much like Napster, Parker was able to foresee Facebook's success and societal contributions only months into its inception. 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.
Ousted from Facebook in for a drug-related arrest, Parker went on to become Managing Partner of Founders Fund , a San Francisco-based venture capital shop. Parker still acts as an informal advisor to Zuckerberg. Initially structured as a loan, the financing later converted to a Thiel maintains a seat on Facebook's board of directors and, in addition, serves as president of Clarium Capital , a hedge fund, and is a Managing Partner of VC firm, The Founders Fund.
Sheryl Sandberg has served as the chief operating officer of Facebook since She is currently sitting on nearly 1. But the real serious dinero will come down the road as nearly 40 million shares of restricted stock will vest. But they're also trading at about 18 percent below their week high, which evidently makes some holders wonder if their investment is in the best hands.
To justify installing an independent chair, Trillium lists some missteps Zuckerberg has overseen during his monarchical reign. They include facilitating Russian meddling in U. That's a partial list. Zuckerberg's arrogance, an offshoot of his unassailable position, is palpable. It accounts for Facebook's chronic insensitivity to its users' privacy needs, and the trouble the company has gotten into with the Federal Trade Commission and European regulators.
Checks on Zuckerberg's whims almost never arise. One teachable moment came in , when Facebook proposed creating a third class of stock, with no voting rights whatsoever. Zuckerberg pretended that this idea had been cooked up by the board of directors so he and his wife could give away their Facebook shares to charity without his losing voting control, but of course the board of directors is effectively him.
The shareholder vote at the annual meeting came in overwhelmingly in Zuckerberg's favor, but he eventually abandoned the plan anyway, thanks to the furious reaction from outside shareholders and a shareholder lawsuit over the plan that was about to go to trial when Zuckerberg bailed. But that's an outlier.
In almost every other particular, Zuckerberg's position wins. One can admire the persistence of the shareholders who fight every year to defeat him at the annual meeting, but their efforts are a modern-day definition of "quixotic.
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