Facebook Acquires Whatsapp New 2019
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Herman Syah
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
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Facebook Buys Whatsapp
So our asked Equilar, a business that concentrates on examining executive compensation and also corporate information, to help us check out all the Stocks as well as Exchange Compensation filings related to Koum's sales for 2016.
Facebook Acquires Whatsapp
It turns out he's offered greater than 22 million shares worth about $2.8 billion considering that January.
Facebook agreed to get WhatsApp in February 2014 for over $19 billion in supply, and the price had actually increased to $22 billion by October, when the deal shut, thanks to Facebook's rising supply rate. Koum owned concerning 45% of the business when he sold it, Forbes estimates, which indicates his take on paper was about $10 billion. He additionally obtained a seat on Facebook's board.
At the end of 2015, according to Facebook's yearly proxy filing, Koum owned over 60 million shares of common stock. He likewise had one more 19 million limited supply devices, which vest in time as well as serve as a motivation for him to stick around till November 2018.
Based on that vesting schedule, it appears like he's earned regarding 3 million of those RSUs thus far this year.
So in general, he's sold about one-third of his existing risk in Facebook this year.
Koum's supply sales come as WhatsApp continues to proliferate and as the business is making changes to the service that might open brand-new moneymaking opportunities, but additionally runs the risk of estranging some individuals.
On Thursday, Facebook revealed that WhatsApp was transforming its personal privacy plan for the first time considering that the purchase to enable Facebook to see the phone number that an individual shares when they sign up for WhatsApp. Facebook can use this details to permit services to contact customers straight with WhatsApp, as they can already do with Carrier, as well as will certainly enable Facebook to show even more relevant ads to logged-in users. Nevertheless, WhatsApp claimed it would certainly not share these contact number straight with customers.
WhatsApp passed greater than than 1 billion month-to-month customers in February and also is one of the most popular conversation application in more than half of the globe, according to current statistics from SimilarWeb.
Facebook had no comment on the sales, as it doesn't discuss individuals' financial investment decisions.