- Associated Press - Thursday, May 17, 2012

Facebook Inc. is selling 180 million of its shares in its initial public stock offering. Another 241. 2 million are coming from existing stockholders, including the company’s earliest investors and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebook’s single largest shareholder. And he will control the company with 56 percent of its voting stock.

The IPO sold at $38 per share, generating $6.8 billion for Facebook and $9.2 billion, collectively, for existing stockholders.

Here’s a look at existing Facebook Inc. shareholders and how much money they have gained from the IPO.

_ Mark Zuckerberg

Number of shares being offered: 30.2 million

Value: $1.15 billion

_ James Breyer and Accel Partners, where he’s a partner

Year invested in Facebook: 2005

Number of shares being offered: 49 million

Value: $1.86 billion

_ Peter Thiel, managing partner at The Founders Fund and PayPal co-founder

Year invested in Facebook: 2004

Number of shares being offered: 16.8 million

Value: $640 million

_ DST Global Ltd. and affiliates, a London-based, Russian-founded investment firm focused on Internet companies and founded by Yuri Milner

Year invested in Facebook: 2009 and late 2010

Number of shares being offered: 45.7 million

Value: $1.74 billion

_ Goldman Sachs and affiliates, investment bank and one of the IPO’s underwriters

Year invested in Facebook: 2011

Number of shares being offered: 28.7 million

Value: $1.09 billion

_ Elevation Partners, private equity firm focused on media and technology and affiliates

Number of shares being offered: 4.6 million

Value: $176 million

_ Greylock Partners, Silicon Valley venture capital firm and affiliates

Year invested in Facebook: 2006

Number of shares being offered: 7.6 million

Value: $289 million

_ Mail.ru Group Ltd., Russian Internet company

Year invested in Facebook: 2009

Number of shares being offered: 19.6 million

Value: $745 million

_ Mark Pincus, Zynga Inc. CEO

Year invested in Facebook: 2004

Number of shares being offered: 1 million

Value: $38 million

_ Meritech Capital Partners, venture capital firm focused on late-stage investments

Number of shares being offered: 7 million

Value: $266 million

_ Microsoft Corp.

Year invested in Facebook: 2007

Number of shares being offered: 6.6 million

Value: $249 million

_ Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn Corp. and affiliates

Year invested in Facebook: 2004

Number of shares being offered: 942,784

Value: $36 million

_ Tiger Global Management, New York-based investment firm

Number of shares being offered: 23.4 million

Value: $889 million

_ Other, smaller stockholders are offering another 70,504 shares.

Value: $2.7 million

Source: Facebook’s regulatory filings and Associated Press calculations

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