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Facebook landed on Wall Street. The giant founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg has filed with the SEC, the U.S. commission that oversees the exchange, the quotation request. The objective of the IPO (initial public offering) is to raise at least $ 5 billion. This is the most important stock market debut ever for a company in Silicon Valley. The title plan to have as a symbol "Fb".
Annual revenues +79.5%
A prospectus filed with the SEC states that the company co-founded by the young Marck Zuckerberg, only eight years ago, has net earnings of $ 668 million in 2011 and a turnover of 3.7 billion dollars, an increase of base annual rate of 79.5%. With its 800 million users, Facebook is the most visited site in the world. With the goal of raising 5 million FB collection points to a record that far exceeds that of Google in 2004 from 1.9 billion dollars. At the end of the offer on the stock exchange, then the value of Facebook could be worth about $ 100 billion. The advisor of the maxi-operation will be Morgan Stanley, joined by JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs.
Zuckerberg: "We are going to exchange for employees'
"We want to go in exchange for our employees and our investors," said Marck Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg is Facebook has 28.4% and, according to documents filed in 2011 had a salary of $ 483,333 and a total fee of 1.49 million dollars.
The rich will hypo Bono
The IPO (Initial Public Offering) of social networks will become millionaires and its employees, among others, enrich Bono, U2 lead singer, the founder of LinkedIn Reid Hoffman, CEO and Marc Pincus of Zynga. Bono, in fact, is also the founder of Elevation Partners investment company and its stake in Facebook, the social network will be when the stock market, will be evaluated - reports the Telegraph - a billion dollars, or because the singer has gained throughout career in U2. Hoffman was also an early investor in Facebook. Pincus, Zynga with, but not only attracts 200 million people regularly about their online games on Facebook, such as FarmVille and CityVille, but is itself an investor of the most popular social network in the world.
The Giro d'affaro social network
Beyond the large sums relating to the IPO, the rest of Facebook is increasingly at the heart of IT related to the turnover generated by the contacts of its users, both private and professional. A recent study by Deloitte indicated in 15.3 billion euros, the turnover of EU companies related to social networks (2.5 billion only in Italy), an activity that would help generate some jobs at 232mila Europe and almost 34 thousand only in our country.
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