Facebook Inc. sold 180 million of its shares in its initial public stock offering. Another 241.2 million came from existing stockholders, including the company's earliest investors and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Except for Zuckerberg, those stockholders will be eligible to sell additional shares — up at 271 million combined — starting Thursday. Here's a look at early Facebook Inc. investors who sold stock in the IPO: — Mark Zuckerberg Number of shares sold in IPO: 30.2 million — James Breyer and Accel Partners, where he's a partner Year invested in Facebook: 2005 Number of shares sold: 57.7 million — Peter Thiel, managing partner at The Founders Fund and PayPal co-founder Year invested in Facebook: 2004 Amount invested: $500,000 Number of shares sold in IPO: 16.8 million — DST Global Ltd. and affiliates, a London-based investment firm focused on Internet companies, founded by Russian investor Yuri Milner Year invested in Facebook: 2009 and late 2010 Number of shares sold in IPO: 45.7 million — Goldman Sachs and affiliates, investment bank and one of the IPO's underwriters Year invested in Facebook: 2011 Number of shares sold in IPO: 24.3 million — Elevation Partners, private equity firm focused on media and technology and affiliates Year invested in Facebook: Undisclosed Number of shares sold: 4.6 million — Greylock Partners, Silicon Valley venture capital firm and affiliates Year invested in Facebook: 2006 Number of shares sold: 7.6 million — Mail.ru Group Ltd., Russian Internet company Year invested in Facebook: 2009 Number of shares sold: 19.6 million — Mark Pincus, Zynga Inc. CEO Year invested in Facebook: 2004 Number of shares sold: 1 million — Meritech Capital Partners, venture capital firm focused on late-stage investments Year invested in Facebook: 2006 Number of shares sold: 7 million — Microsoft Corp. Year invested in Facebook: 2007 Amount invested: $240 million Number of shares sold: 6.6 million — Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn Corp. and affiliates Year invested in Facebook: 2004 Number of shares sold: 942,784 — Tiger Global Management, New York-based investment firm Year invested in Facebook: Undisclosed Number of shares sold: 19.1 million — Other, smaller stockholders are offered another 76,635 shares Source: Facebook Inc. and Associated Press research
Investors who sold stock in Facebook IPO
— Aug. 14 5:19 PM EDT
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