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Its great to see so many employees on that list. No one can say the early-birds didn't get their share.

not really.

Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, Saverin, Hughes were all founders.

The rest were C-level executives, most of which were brought on later through connections.

The only real employee is Callahan, which owns .08% of the company...and it's very telling that there are no other rank and file employees on the list.

And .08% is peanuts, if you were a programmer in a company that got bought for 100 million, your stake would get you a grand total of $80,000.

The ownership percentages listed on the site only sum to 72.669%, so there's a lot of stock not accounted for. I'd imagine that there are lots of relatively low-profile employees with 7-8 figure stakes of that dark 27.331%.

I think I read in different places that the option pool for a startup is usually around 10-15%. So assuming those guys on the list are not part of it, and FB allocated half of it to employees, that is nearly 4B (at a 80B valuation). If you split that evenly between 2000 employees that is $2M per employee. Ok, I know my math gots to be wrong. Can someone help?

Actually, that's not too far off. If you were hired pre-2010 your stock is probably worth > $1 million by now. That goes up by some constant multiple for every year previous to that.

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