Dec. 15, 2011
There's only one reason Facebook is going to IPO: To make its employees and investors rich.
Who's getting rich when the company does IPO?
Assuming Facebook can get that $100 billion valuation being floated in the press, here's who would be worth what.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-ownership-2011-12 Facebook accounts for 95% of social networking time on the web in the U.S. according to an analysis of comScore data provided to us by web publisher Ben Elowitz of Wetpaint.
(We would think this holds for mobile, but it's possible Twitter has more of a hold there than on the desktop.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-owns-95-of-social-networking-time-2011-12